Books Quote by Louis MacNeice

“Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.”

— Maya Panika

“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas…

— Eliza Granville

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

— David Gordon

“There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with…

— Mervyn Peake

“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its…

— Bruno Schulz

“It's all about the writing, and of course, the ghosts.”

— Debi Chestnut

“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed…

— Leland Hall

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“But as we all know, it is the fairy-tale creatures - the misfits, the weirdos, the wanderers, the flakes, the poets, the vagabonds, the…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet, and is carried about as a burden. The many ghosts are always a…

— Geddes MacGregor

“I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad.…

— Donna Lynn Hope