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Books Quotes by Lev Grossman
- The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part…
- It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
- Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need…
- People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
- My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
- I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you…
- Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
- How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too…
- I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
- My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
- Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
- Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not…
- When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house…
- The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in…
More Books Quotes
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- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine