Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Literacy

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Consciousness

• I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That’s no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Live Life, Book, Writing

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

• In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Joy, Lasts

  Katherine Mansfield (1951). “Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922”

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