Books
Quotes - Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river
“Your
mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is
it? Just books?"
Grabbing
the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't
understand.”
―
Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx
“V-Day…if
you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your
loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all
artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“I
mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives.
Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
―
Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song
“If
all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would
offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“Reading
is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
―
Proust-M
“The
art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an
interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any
particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or
poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for
fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not
reading bad ones: for life is short.”
―
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
“I
suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the
one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."
(Interview
with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
―
Gail Carriger
“All
the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we
have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical
purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are,
whether we read the books or not.”
―
Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
“Books
can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your
life’.”
―
Helen Exley
“Rule
number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“The
science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the
arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place
of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war,
that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons
ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval
architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their
children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary,
tapestry and porcelain.”
―
John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
“Where
should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end
up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
―
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“Bea
says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual,
that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us,
that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are
becoming more scarce by the day.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Generally
speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then
they cause all kinds of problems.”
―
Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
“The
classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open,
unending, free.”
―
Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Of course
I loved books more than people.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“Too
many books. Too few centuries.”
―
Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
“My
books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
―
Mark Twain, Notebook
“There
are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because
there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something
different.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
“Read
a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
―
Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“You're
never alone when you're reading a book.”
―
Susan Wiggs
