Ghost Book Quotes

2 quotes from 2 authors

Picture a shop where unread books linger like restless spirits. One quote calls it a haunted bookshop, haunted by the ghosts of pages we never read. Another likens a Japanese lover to a shadowy presence, a quiet echo in the background. For more phantom reads, see Haunted Libraries or Literary Ghosts.

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“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and…

Christopher Morley

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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

Isabel Allende

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