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Charlie Lovett QUOTES

Charlie Lovett QUOTES

1 " The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

2 " King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Lost Book of the Grail

3 " Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustrations and reduced reading to nothing but a stream of text in whatever font and size they chose. Reading without books, thought Arthur, was like playing cricket without dressing in white. It could be done, but why? "

― Charlie Lovett , The Lost Book of the Grail

4 " It is the best truth I can recall—but what is recollection and what is exaggeration that has merged with recollection over the years? What is my own memory, and what do I trust to the memory of others? How accurate is my mind, and how accurate those of so many who have told these stories? These are questions I cannot answer, any more than you can answer whether God is a god of war or peace. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Lost Book of the Grail

5 " Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge

6 " I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

7 " A good book is like a good friend. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. When you first get to know it, it will give you excitement and adventure, and years later it will provide you with comfort and familiarity. And best of all, you can share it with your children or your grandchildren or anyone you love enough to let into its secrets. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

8 " If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you're left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it's still there, it's still valuable, and it's achieved the full measure of it's being. A book is to read, whether it's worth five pounds or five thousand pounds "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

9 " What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Bookman’s Tale

10 " The best way to learn about books, ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Bookman’s Tale

11 " That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost."
"It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis, and Peter knew in a second that it was his own. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Bookman’s Tale

12 " Anyway, a man who buys a woman a book this nice is looking to be more than just an acquaintance. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

13 " The best way to learn about books," he said, "is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Bookman’s Tale

14 " The gifts of God are rarely what we expect. "

― Charlie Lovett , The Lost Book of the Grail

15 " A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed. If that doesn't get him here then he's not much of a knight in shining armor. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

16 " I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

17 " The best way to learn about books ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them. "

― Charlie Lovett

18 " Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

19 " She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman. "

― Charlie Lovett , First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

20 " So are you lonely, or just a loner? "

― Charlie Lovett , The Bookman’s Tale