Books Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his…

— Stephen Fry

“The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical…

— Edith Wharton

“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his…

— Wendell Berry

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“it seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the…

— Elena Ferrante

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since books have…

— Henry Miller

“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If…

— Fred Chappell

“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It…

— Mary Shelley

“It was evident to me then that I existed in the same manner as all other men, that I must grow old, that I…

— Marcel Proust

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov