Beloved Book Quotes

#1. It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#2. No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.

Susan Wiggs

#3. More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Helen Keller

#4. silent. Walter had been reading again that day in his beloved book of myths and he remembered how he had once fancied the Pied Piper coming down the valley on an evening

L.M. Montgomery

#5. 'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. You want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

Helen Gurley Brown

#7. Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

Roger Ebert

#8. Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all - and to the relief of authors everywhere - children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.

Steven D. Levitt

#9. My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

Jane Yolen

#10. The novel remains for me one of the few forms ... where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.

John Cheever

#11. It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

James Patterson

#12. The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

Charles Colson

#13. In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

Dai Sijie

#14. Helen makes a mental note to pick up a self help book the next time she was out. This was getting ridiculous.

Solange Nicole

#15. And although he tried every day to remember the promise he'd made to her, every day it became more and more remote, until it was just a memory, and so was she, a beloved character from a book he'd read long ago.

Hanya Yanagihara