Books
Quotes - I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print
“I
write to find strength.
I
write to become the person that hides inside me.
I
write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I
write to be seen and heard.
I
write to be near those I love.
I
write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I
write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I
write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I
write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to
heal.
I
write myself out of nightmares.
I
write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I
write to remember.
I
write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I
write because speaking can’t be reread.
I
write to sooth a mind that races.
I
write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I
write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I
write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very
long.
I
write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I
write to provide a legacy.
I
write to make sense out of senselessness.
I
write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified
by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I
write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the
dreamers.
I
write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of
time.
I
write because God loves stories.
I
write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live
on.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“I
have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my
weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my
mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its
edge. That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“I
wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl
through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“When
you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink
and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and
ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I
mean.”
―
Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
“Each
book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
―
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
“Right
now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get
better!”
―
Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell
“The
one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a
perpetual orgy.”
―
Gustave Flaubert
“Without
libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
―
Ray Bradbury
“You
want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging
you.”
―
Stephen King, Night Shift
“There
are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are
images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women.
There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality.
There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly
do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls
of my room, at night, in shadows... I've written sentences whose sound, read
out loud or silently (impossible to hide their sound), can only be of something
that acquired absolute exteriority and a full-fledged soul.”
―
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquiet
“Fiction
can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been.
Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never
be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good
thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them
better, leave them different.
And
while we're on the subject, I'd like to say a few words about escapism. I hear
the term bandied about as if it's a bad thing. As if "escapist"
fiction is a cheap opiate used by the muddled and the foolish and the deluded,
and the only fiction that is worthy, for adults or for children, is mimetic
fiction, mirroring the worst of the world the reader finds herself in.
If
you were trapped in an impossible situation, in an unpleasant place, with
people who meant you ill, and someone offered you a temporary escape, why
wouldn't you take it? And escapist fiction is just that: fiction that opens a
door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in
control, are with people you want to be with(and books are real places, make no
mistake about that); and more importantly, during your escape, books can also
give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give
you armour: real things you can take back into your prison. Skills and
knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real.
As
JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are
jailers.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
