Books Quote by Gunter Grass

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying.…

— Virginia Woolf

“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”

— Mike Mullin

“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.”

— David Gordon

“To the secular arm, therefore, be delivered any and every book which, catering for the youngsters, throttles the life of the old folktales with…

— Edward Clodd

“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting such store…

— Terry Pratchett

“-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.”

— Barbara Hodgson

“Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them…

— Andrew Rilstone

“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?”

— Ray Bradbury

“Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men…

— William Wordsworth

“If nothing else, books are conversations from beyond the grave. Am I anything at all, Reader, besides this manuscript you hold?”

— Daniel Kraus

“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.”

— Garrett Leigh

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser