Books
Quotes - What we become depends on what we read
“Quiet
people have the loudest minds.”
―
Stephen King
“Authors
like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like
authors for the same reasons.”
―
Robertson Davies
“Books,
which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ”
―
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
“Literature
is my Utopia”
―
Helen Keller
“For
the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness
for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations
of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only
dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a
second time.”
―
Elie Wiesel, Night
“In
the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you
understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people,
so it was easier to spot a lie.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“For
books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages
past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their
lives.”
―
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I
suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss
feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what
good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and
harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what
someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
―
Jess C Scott, New Order
“Writing
fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
―
Khaled Hosseini
“When
a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like
radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops
that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths
may occasionally be produced."
[Books
vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
―
Salman Rushdie
“You
forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through
centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story,
dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into
characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their
costumes.”
―
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“An
artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully
functional.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald
“The
moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always
dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“There
is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and
a tired man who wants a book to read.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
“A
book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
―
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“What
we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished
with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
―
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“You
are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
―
Grace Willows, To Kiss a King
“The
best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
―
Benjamin Disraeli
“After
that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you
will remember this:
A
man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all
wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a
ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the
right time.”
―
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“I
attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every
crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
―
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
“If
this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny,
then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more
public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We
must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the
criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For
the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
[Response
to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
―
John F. Kennedy
