Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child.…

— Francine Prose

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that…

— Emma Watson

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of…

— John Green

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and…

— Stephanie Coontz

Sometimes we can't let go of memories, because they are constant reminders of a great story that we never expected to end.

— Joffrey Lagura

“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much the recollection…

— Simon Wroe

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

— Mike Mills

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

— Agnes Varda

OLD AGE: It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

— Wandini

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

— Oprah Winfrey