Books
Quotes - Buying books always made me feel better
“I
don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to
be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable
characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in
the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go
ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.”
―
John Green
“Do
you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the
pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the
full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“I
hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
―
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Buying
books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.
-
Florence Day”
“An
hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”
―
Thomas Wharton
“Every
word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest
compliment I can give.”
―
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“As
you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you
in a book.”
―
George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie
“anyone
who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with
extravagant enthusiasm.”
―
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“I
read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with
a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take
out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for
a week. I went for old books, the older the better--Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean
tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos--so that when I finally resurfaced,
blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished,
crystalline rhythms.”
―
Tana French, In the Woods
“After
a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a
boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the
outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and
radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Censoring
books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody.
Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable.
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children
cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson
“A
novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If
you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become
involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at
the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the
experience. So start breathing.”
―
Azar Nafisi
“I
wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile,
I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to
conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers
in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.”
―
Beth Revis
“Associate
with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the
mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”
―
Saul Bellow, Ravelstein
“A
good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's
not the same book, and we're not the same reader”
―
Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading
Life
“I
don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met
other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the
adventures and dialogues I read in my books.”
―
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
“Literary
detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword
and so forth. ”
―
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
“With
one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
―
Ezra Pound
“Buying
a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”
―
Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
“Please
try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us
things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
―
Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List
“It
is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before
you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
―
Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
“Why
does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a
life?”
―
Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be
