Books Give Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and…
— Petrarch
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A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to…
— Blake Morrison
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The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort…
— John Dos Passos
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You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
— Robertson Davies
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Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
— Kathryn Stockett
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe…
— Natalie Babbitt
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages,…
— Orhan Pamuk
Who Wrote These Books Give Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Books Give Quotes as follows: