Book Quote by Milan Kundera

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts…

— Terry Pratchett

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the…

— Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied) their reality.…

— Marcel Proust

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but…

— Patricia Highsmith

“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

— Tove Jansson

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him…

— Virginia Woolf