Books Quote by Devin Brown Download Open image ““Good books and good friends were critical in Lewis’s conversion.”” — Devin Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Friendship Good book Good friend Good friends
“Lewis, anything but dull, suffered from an excess of misguided cleverness: he could disparage himself brilliantly in a matter of seconds. He knew literature,… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.” — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“ '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 Copy Share Image
“Lewis was a scholar and deeply spiritual man, so it is no surprise that all his characters have to face the complex nature of… — E.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes… — Joe Fassler Copy Share Image
“We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never… — John Bakeless Copy Share Image
“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or… — Trisha Haddad Copy Share Image
“Beginning with Bilbo's unexpected party in chapter 1 with its tea, seed-cakes, buttered scones, apple-tarts, mince-pies, cheese, eggs, cold chicken, pickles, beer, coffee, and… — Devin Brown Copy Share Image
“Probably we each could point to times in our own lives when if we had listened to someone’s advice, we, too, could have avoided… — Devin Brown 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
