Books Quote by Ann Patchett

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared,…

— Michael Anthony

“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.”

— Rolf Smith

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“A book may be not just what it says in the text, but the background beneath it.”

— Angelina Hu

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like…

— Antonio Muxf1oz Molina

“If nothing else, books are conversations from beyond the grave. Am I anything at all, Reader, besides this manuscript you hold?”

— Daniel Kraus

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin

“There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink…

— Ilana Waters

“They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters…

— Brian Francis Slattery