Books Quote by Cornelia Funke

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“He was just a reader and readers can't do anything to make a story stop - except close the book.”

— Holly Black

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you will press…

— Brian Zahnd

“You never finish a book. You only abandon it.”

— Peter Watts

“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned,…

— Sofia Samatar

“Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave you a…

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“Once a good book opens, it won't close until the end.”

— Abby Buter

“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come…

— Nicholas Carr

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the…

— Fae Sutherland

“Don’t break a writer’s heart and think ink won’t spill.”

— Ming D. Liu