Books Quotes

With all the books we have, so many still waiting to be written! Like fresh deep plums way up in the treetops. Not much fun to climb up some teetery ladder, snake through the branches going way out on limbs to pick ’em, but how delicious they are when the work is over.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book — what others do not say in whole books.