Books
Quotes - Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon
the book
“I
couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my
furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so
books I possess.”
― H.
P. Lovecraft
“This
book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the
help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful
friends.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
“I
know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write
one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
―
Emily Dickinson
“It's
a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
“I
have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has
never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot
pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on
my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still
forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.
Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot
forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more
essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is
in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a
yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“When
asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a
time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It
sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you
will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read
you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
―
Stephen King
“I
believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our
lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles
of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and
suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us
right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend
who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the
ability to find their own way into our lives.”
―
Cecelia Ahern
“When
I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my
books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
―
Montaigne, Les Essais
“When
I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that
convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
―
Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
“As
the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the
shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink
inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
“In
principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
―
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I
love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A
good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”
―
Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
“Please,
no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There
is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance
speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
―
Patti Smith
“They're
book addicts.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill
“Where
they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
―
Heinrich Heine
“You
know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that
it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the
net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But
you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot
let go or turn the course aside.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“Rainy
days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
―
Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
“It
starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About
love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called
romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of
them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick
and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and
something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your
life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester.
Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad
boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of
every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and
look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and
self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What
was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good
and comes to the rescue.”
―
Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
