Books Give Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Books Give Quote by Robertson Davies
• 1 Books Give Quote by Petrarch
• 1 Books Give Quote by Orhan Pamuk
• 1 Books Give Quote by Natalie Babbitt
• 1 Books Give Quote by Kathryn Stockett
• 1 Books Give Quote by John Dos Passos
• 1 Books Give Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
• 1 Books Give Quote by Blake Morrison