Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed…

— Virginia Woolf

“The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.”

— K.J. Bishop

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight…

— Bill Bryson

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when…

— John Crowley

“But as he grew older he thought less of it, grew accustomed to the days lived. Each day he climbed the hill, as he…

— Paul Yoon

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in…

— Koichi Tanaka

I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about it. And…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would…

— William Faulkner

“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about…

— Nina Sankovitch

“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving,…

— Lavie Tidhar

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that…

— Fran Lebowitz

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

— Terry Pratchett