Books Quote by Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the texture of…

— Tom Rachman

“But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that…

— Utah Phillips

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning…

— Nadeem Aslam

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic…

— Juliet Marillier

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight…

— John Connolly

“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…

— Kenneth Grahame

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

“They were boastful, triumphant; it seemed to both that they had read every book in the world; known every sin, passion, and joy. Civilizations…

— Virginia Woolf

“History was like looking into others’ lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.”

— Max Vos