Joseph Joubert Book Quotations

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.