Quotes of: Book Keyword

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better,...

Jane Haddam

Lord Victor Quartermaine: Vicar! Vicar! Oh, where the devil is he? Reverend Clement Hedges: Do you want to confess? Lord Victor Quartermaine: I want to talk to you about... The beast. [lightning strikes] Reverend Clement Hedges: Everything you need t...

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

William of Baskerville: [after finding the secret room of books in the tower] How many more rooms? Ah! How many more books? No one should be forbidden to consult these books freely. Adso of Melk: Perhaps they are thought to be too precious, too fragi...

The Name of the Rose

[Book, having just dropped off Rachel and Samuel back at Lapp's farm, is driving away when he convulses and passes out from loss of blood from an untreated gunshot wound and crashes into a birdhouse. Rachel and Samuel run out to Book] Rachel Lapp: My...

Witness

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glas...

Fahrenheit 451

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarel...

The Book Thief

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty...

How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

Mick had once come across one of Wilson't books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover. Mick was even more surprised when he read the book. It was pretty good, although Mick was kind of tired of hearing about Indians. Still, Mick thought...

Indian Killer

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those t...

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and music schools— all those places where I felt at home have joined the list of endangered species. The San Francisco Chronicle, the ...

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the rea...

The Thirteenth Tale

He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never real...

Patrick Ness

(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?') There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the easy part of writing; finding the time and energy t...

Patricia C. Wrede

See to it that you have many books and many friends -- but be sure they are good ones.

Spanish

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.

The Clockwork Crown

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

In the City of Shy Hunters

Daughter A sprinkle of sparkle, A dazzle of sweet, A flutter of cute, From your head to your feet.

Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice

Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

The Coming Race