Books Quote by Cassandra Clare

“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot bursts into…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

“About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. "Will you write like…

— Laura Whitcomb

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course,…

— Cora Carmack

“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines…

— Margaret Atwood

“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a…

— Hisham Matar

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All…

— Ross King

“I walked toward the bar where The Reader sat turning pages, a cup of coffee at his elbow. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing…

— Molly O'Keefe