D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Jewels, Profound

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

• The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Men, Alive

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

• After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

• But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Book, Names

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1234, Delphi Classics

• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Toil

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

• To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Struggle, Flower, Book

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

• The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Tree, Generations

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

• Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Father, Book

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

• A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

• I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Men, Fullness Of Life

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Feelings, Criticism

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Emotion

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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