Book Quotes

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

The real war will never get in the books.

Words could paint pictures.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just – I hate that I wrote that.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.