Quotes of: Book Keyword

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Inkspell

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

The Jungle Books

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

Johnny Got His Gun

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Jacob's Room

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Relentless

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

The Red Pyramid

Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter," she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.

The Roar

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

The Red Notebook: True Stories

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

The Summer Book

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.

The Square Book

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Sandry's Book

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.

Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

The Stranger's Child