Books Quote by donna tartt

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding…

— Donna Tartt

“Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour,…

— Rob Shepherd

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read,…

— Albert Camus

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“From an airplane, the earth always looks so orderly, so gentle. So full of abundance and grace and purposeful intelligence. By day you could…

— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

“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

“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived…

— Garon Whited

“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely setting foot…

— William Ritter

“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who…

— Mary Stewart Atwell

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty