Books Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If…

— Fred Chappell

“Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I…

— Claire Dederer

“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

— Cornelia Funke

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”

— Naomi Benaron

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t…

— Masha Hamilton

“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go…

— Paul Auster