Books
Quotes - Fill your house with stacks of books
“A
good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“How
many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Because
when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and
suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought
dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through
the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”
―
Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
“A
book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
―
Andrei Tarkovsky
“[I]t's
not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will
never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of
censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”
―
Judy Blume
“Personally,
I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can
be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really
boring.”
―
Shannon Hale
“I
wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the
characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should
accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of
them as people in a story.”
―
G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
“There
is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes
from an ancient book.”
―
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Writers
are the exorcists of their own demons.”
―
Mario Vargas-Llosa
“Fill
your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
―
Dr. Seuss
“There
are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we
left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
―
Marcel Proust, Days of Reading
“People
don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that
allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's
vision, isn't it?"
[Interview
in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
―
Lemmy Kilmister
“The
book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and
extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant
to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have
to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light,
a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not
ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were
fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may
understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new
book."
(Staying
Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading, Harper's Magazine, February
2008)”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin
“Reading
changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking
travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the
confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the
saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better
human being.”
―
Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“ah,
life—
the
thing
that
happens
to
us
while
we’re off
somewhere
else
blowing
on
dandelions
&
wishing
ourselves
into
the
pages of
our
favorite
fairy
tales.”
―
Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“We're
all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take
away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin
strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that
make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need
be.”
―
Libba Bray
“I
even love the smell of books.”
―
Adriana Trigiani
“You
see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of
books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I
start a new one.”
―
Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
“We're
going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and
the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're
remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll
remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history
and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“A
successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
―
Mark Twain
“What
better place to kill time than a library?”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“Governments
and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”
―
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
