Kate Miller > Kate's Quotes

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
― Nathanael West

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda