Geraldine Brooks Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Book, Hands, Mind

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin

• Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Book, Burning, Graves

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.373, Penguin

• Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Morning, Dad, Book

• Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

  Geraldine Brooks

  Book, Mind, Vision

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