Books Quote by John Steinbeck

“He knew what I was thinking,” the boy said to himself. The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to”

— Paulo Coelho

“He guessed he wouldn’t mind being a book. Books just did what they were made to do, like stars just shining out in case…

— Cynthia Voigt

“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Something at the back of his mind whispered that this assignment would be like nothing he had encountered before.”

— Nicole Sager

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.…

— Alice Hoffman

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

— Carsten Jensen

“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he…

— Cormac McCarthy

“They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who…

— Paul Auster

“But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a…

— Katherine Boo

“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and…

— Mikl Paul

“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man…

— Ray Bradbury

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury