Anne Roiphe Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Islands, Desert

• You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Giving, Humanity

• My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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