George MacDonald Book Quotations

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.