Gertrude Atherton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Book, Ambition, Spices

• I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Book, Passion, Heart

• ... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Book, Alive, Reason

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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