Books
Quotes - It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids
“There
was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her
home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that
never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable,
tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered
her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
“Remember,
the past need not become our future as well.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
“It
had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had
been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of
themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot
remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves,
cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and
their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to
myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I
could give them ...”
―
Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
“His
hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop.
It was the best feeling.”
―
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
“A
book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another
place and another heart and another world.”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels
There
“Neither
novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts
hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can
matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“An
unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not
among symbols printed on a page.”
―
Brandon Mull
“I
gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my
shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.”
―
Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites
“I
was with book, as a woman is with child.”
―
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
“It
was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want
to move around very much.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
“It's
a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”
―
Tracy Chevalier
“Give
yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never
quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s
brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.
. .
.
We
are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure
time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from
books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s
service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.”
―
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Don't
mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track
you down! They have skills!”
―
Charles Ogden
“As
you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation,
just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the
creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and
re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts
and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin
“If
you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up.
If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the
doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you
permit it.”
―
Mark Glamack
“We
are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books.
We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of
passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading
with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books
on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship
for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that
we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government,
some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we
have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is
lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the
floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are
us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral,
intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today.”
―
Cory Doctorow