Books Quote by Elizabeth von Arnim

“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the…

— Liam W. Russell

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”

— Jessica Brockmole

“For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to…

— Anthony Esolen

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods,…

— Luisa Weiss

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as…

— Thomas Wharton

“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you…

— Lev Grossman

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A…

— Beth Pattillo

“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

“Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced…

— Paula McLain

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and…

— Virginia Woolf