Quotes of: Book Keyword

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.

Night Train to Lisbon

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

Norwegian Wood

Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling

Kraken Wakes

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

Looking for Alibrandi

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.

Little, Big

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Lost in a Good Book

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.

Leaves From A Surgeon's Case-Book

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

Lud-in-the-Mist

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

A Long Way Down

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

The Land of Journeys' Ending

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

The Lost Hero

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

Give me a book and I will learn how to live my life, but give me a boob, and I won’t need to know the life.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

The Library at Night

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

Linger

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

A Little Princess

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

A Little Princess