Books Quote by Anna Quindlen

“There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or…

— Courtney Summers

“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a…

— Mary Jo Putney

“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

— John Green

“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature…

— Bob Smith

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the…

— Fae Sutherland

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

“What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to…

— Lisa Yee

“—I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary. —I think we really like…

— William Gaddis

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its…

— Laura Kinsale

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at…

— Nick Hornby

“Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth…

— John Holt