Books Quote by James K. Morrow

“Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any…

— George Eliot

“Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm…

— Charlotte Brontë

“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

“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them…

— Susan Hill

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put…

— George Orwell

“Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.”

— Donald Sassoon

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were…

— Charles Bukowski

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none,…

— Anonymous