Bella Bathurst Quotes

United States, Author
1969

Bella Bathurst is the author of four books, including The Stevenson Lighthouse, the 1999 Somerset Maugham Award, The Pest, a BBC Timewatch documentary, and The Bicycle Book, which was included on the shortlist for the 2011 sports book by William Hill. the rest of the time I design and manufacture furniture on order.

Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

Bella Bathurst
- Thoughts
- Loss
- Wait
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.

Bella Bathurst
- Truth
- History
- Witches

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

Bella Bathurst
- People
- Books
- Steal
The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection with other worlds and different views, even if that’s no more than being among other people thinking and breathing.

Bella Bathurst
Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

Bella Bathurst
- Children
- Silence
- Provide