Books
Quotes - Books permit us to voyage through time
“I
love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves,
waving their pages at me.”
―
Tahereh Mafi
“Readers
have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They
have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious”
and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they
can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want.
If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover,
they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their
dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can."
[Blog
entry, January 9, 2012]”
―
Stacia Kane
“My
arms are killing me.
I
didn't know words could be so heavy.”
―
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“Walking
the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard
not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
―
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“The
problem with books is that they end.”
―
Caroline Kepnes, You
“My
head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“If
a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
―
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Good
books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more
enjoyable.”
―
Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets
“[I]
read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
―
Simon Van Booy
“I
suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready,
and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone
ourselves.”
―
E.M. Forster
“I
love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
―
Umberto Eco
“Books
say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are
explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people
prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they
make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
―
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
“If
you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from
it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
―
Anne Fadiman
“Luckily,
I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or
some such inconvenience.”
―
David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“There
is no Frigate like a Book
To
take us Lands away
Nor
any Coursers like a Page
Of
prancing Poetry –
This
Traverse may the poorest take
Without
oppress of Toll –
How
frugal is the Chariot
That
bears a Human soul.”
―
Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
“Books
permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The
library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from
Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn
from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring,
and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of
the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our
awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future
can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“I
grabbed my book and opened it up.
I
wanted to smell it.
Heck,
I wanted to kiss it.
Yes,
kiss it.
That's
right, I am a book kisser.
Maybe
that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”
―
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Literature
adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary
competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it
irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“In
the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you
see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“At
one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of
confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up
their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably,
a reader.”
―
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
“She
was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a
magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create
powerful spells.”
―
Dean Koontz, Lightning
