Book Quote by Susan Hill

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf.…

— Katherine Paterson

“An Afternoon in the Stacks Closing the book, I find I have left my head inside. It is dark in here, but the chapters…

— William Edgar Stafford

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

— Mark Twain

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

— Christina Ricci

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on…

— Marya Hornbacher

“Unmade, mid-morning. A dress where it fell, where you snaked from it. The slab of the bedsheet, marbled with creases. These pillows washed up…

— Anonymous

“A book would therefore have a twofold benefit. First, it would rid me of my demons and perhaps save some innocent conversationalist from my…

— Mark Forsyth

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

— James Joyce

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect…

— Kevin Gutzman

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

— G.K. Chesterton