Books Quote by Cath Crowley Download Open image ““Secondhand books are haunted, according to him. Ghosts in the pages.”” — Cath Crowley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Secondhand books are full of mysteries, which is why I like them. Frederick” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“He reached out to stroke the spines of the books, as if they might whisper their secrets to him if he touched them. But… — Christoph Marzi Copy Share Image
“Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has completely disappeared,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.” — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the words all… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.” — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“Get up, Henry,' he says. 'You're fermenting. Tell him he's fermenting, George.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“Serial killer aren't creative." "Watch a little Dexter and get back to me on that.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“I made you collapsible. I put you in and raised you with string and made you stay there with putty.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“I’ve been reading a heap too—not swimming. I don’t swim. I like baths, though, and they allow the added bonus of being able to… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint sails and… — cath crowley Copy Share Image
“Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history.… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“I stopped doubting her predication after she told me I'd be allergic to guava juice, which was something I'd never tried. I drank a… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“If my like for you was a footy crowd, you'd be deaf cos of the roar. And if my like for you were a… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“Ellipses," according to Henry, are "fucking excellent." The exclamation mark is just a weird guy who talks too loudly.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“Humans are strong, but if you hit them at the right point, they destruct.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“He's one of the good guys,' she always said.'Just sometimes he's working undercover” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
