Book Quote by Virginia Woolf

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but…

— John Darnielle

“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit,…

— Michael Chabon

“The most voluminous books on earth began each with a letter, then words; a phrase, then sentences. You never write great until you write…

— Justice Israel

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within…

— Anonymous

“a book is a box of words until you open it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to [the words of the wise]. Of making many books there is no end, and much…

— Ecclesiastes 12:12

“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.”

— Kylene Beers

“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page…

— Nicole Blackman

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan