Books
Quotes - I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day
“I
do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people.
Books are so easy to get along with.”
― Katherine
Rundell, Rooftoppers
“There
are worse prisons than words.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Books
have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need
them the most.”
―
Richard Denney
“Books
do furnish a room.”
―
Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time
“What
I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but
hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched
from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in
a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was
breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.”
―
Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
“I
had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a
tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams,
but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you
could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes,
and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates. ”
―
Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
“There
are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means
everything.”
―
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“I
care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”
― Jo
Walton, Among Others
“The
days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
―
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“I've
decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for
all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love
you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the
pursuit of their elusive affections.”
―
Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will
“Reading
is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it
will be.”
―
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Books
aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the
hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite
done it.”
―
Michael Crichton
“I
have never been able to resist a book about books.”
―
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Don't
you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all
the books you want?”
―
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
“Everyone
who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees
it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people
say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for
certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there
but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you
can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“On
the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he
were awakening from a dream.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“Yes,
when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me.
And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls
and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow
pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or
some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .”
―
Betty Smith
“To
read is to empower,
To
empower is to write,
To
write is to influence,
To
influence is to change,
To
change is to live".”
―
Jane Evershed
