Books Quote by Martin Edwards Download Open image ““Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.”” — Martin Edwards ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.” — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
“There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go back and read one twice.” — Deb Baker Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we… — Corrie ten Boom Copy Share Image
“However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image