Robert Musil Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

  Robert Musil

  Book, Reading, Perspective

• Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

  Robert Musil

  Book, Unusual, Cases

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

• But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

  Robert Musil

  Mother, Book, Writing

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