Books
Quotes - A good book is a good book forever
“Adult
librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they
give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You
like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my
cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
―
John Green
“I
ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and
midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with
relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by
the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked
for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the
essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Be
curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils
down to curiosity.”
―
Aaron Swartz
“Books.
They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up
in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like
such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book
jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the
lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of
exploration and discovery.”
―
David Almond
“October
knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of
shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow
that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a
matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a
garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to
stop reading, and to be content.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
“Just
handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss
“A
book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch,"
Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a book? You think
that's worse than murder?"
The
Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who
said things like "What's so bad about genocide?”
―
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“I
think a good book is a good book forever.
I
don't think they get less good because times change.”
―
Megan Whalen Turner
“I
don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I
don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way; I’m just not the type of person who
accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m good with words, but not spoken kind;
I’ve often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct
relationships on paper. And I suppose, in a sense, that’s what I do, for I’ve
hundreds of the other sort, the friends contained within bindings, pages after
glorious pages of ink, stories that unfold the same way every time but never
lose their joy, that take me by the hand and lead me through doorways into
worlds of great terror and rapturous delight. Exciting, worthy, reliable
companions - full of wise counsel, some of them - but sadly ill-equipped to
offer the use of a spare bedroom for a month or two.”
―
Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
“Literature
is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and
saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
―
Boris Pasternak
“When
I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not
just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking
around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a
different prism.”
―
Colin Firth
“Some
stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it
all.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“An
active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a
collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and
crackers.”
―
J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound
“I
know I'm not inspiring much confidence at this point, but there's something
else I thought I'd bring up.” She lifted her eyes to him. “I love you more than
I love books.”
―
Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane
“Nudge
threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'
Yeah,
me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge,
or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”
―
James Patterson
“Reading
made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
“You
don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
―
Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
“And
she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good
story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's
Book.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
