Book Quote by Lydia Millet

“Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.”

Lydia Millet

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings)

More by Lydia Millet

“Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad.”

Lydia Millet

Image

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by…

Lydia Millet

Image

“As he was leaving it occurred to him that he would not come back, to this zoo or to any of them. With the…

Lydia Millet

Image

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Lydia Millet

Image

“What was a face on television but a code, and what was the difference between these faces but a realignment of line and color…

Lydia Millet

Image

“I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory…

Lydia Millet

Image

“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings…

Lydia Millet

Image

“Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we…

Lydia Millet

Image

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Lydia Millet

Image

The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of…

Lydia Millet

Image

“Then he would get into a plane and leave the field wide open; the field was crammed with paralegals, all of them stoutly armed…

Lydia Millet

Image

“Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)”

Lydia Millet

Image

Explore all 31 Lydia Millet quotes

More Book quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Aesop Rock

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Andrew Lang

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Floyd Cooper

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Anna Quindlen

Image

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

Image

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Image

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

Doris Lessing

Image

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

Neil Gaiman

Image

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Anne Bronte

Image

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Benjamin Graham

Image

Browse all 29,278 Book quotes

Book Quote by Lydia Millet

Related quotes

More by Lydia Millet

More Book quotes