Book Quotes

People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

You can predict a persons future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.