Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Book, Weekend

• There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Book, Feet

• I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hate, Dirty, Book

• There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Prayer, Book, Glasses

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

• As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Book, Saws

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.426, A&C Black

• There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Book, Swear To God

• I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Book, Circles

• As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Two, Mind

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

• Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Writing, Worry

  "Lighten up on yourself to have a better life" By Elizabeth Gilber, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2010.

• I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Thinking, Imagination

  "Mandatory Sentences: Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing from the Perch of History". Interview with Andrew Santella, www.gq.com. January 15, 2014.

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