Reading
Quotes - I love books, by the way, way more than movies
“No
two persons ever read the same book.”
―
Edmund Wilson
“Honestly,
I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl
needs to change her own life.”
―
Sasha Alsberg a
“I
couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my
furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so
books I possess.”
―
H. P. Lovecraft
“Cram
your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never
stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other
people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your
nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell
them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
―
Jennifer Weiner
“Everybody
is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
―
Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
“He
held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.”
“Does
it have any sports in it?”
“Fencing.
Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men.
Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men.
Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”
“Sounds
okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.”
―
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Perhaps
there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their
perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
―
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“In
principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
―
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I
believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our
lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles
of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and
suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us
right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend
who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the
ability to find their own way into our lives.”
―
Cecelia Ahern
“They're
book addicts.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill
“Art
never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it
is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand
it.”
―
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I
love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A
good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”
―
Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
“You
know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that
it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the
net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But
you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot
let go or turn the course aside.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“Rainy
days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
―
Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
“The
truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all
avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on
everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least
look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can
look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness.
I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more
dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote
popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets,
desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan
Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of
the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means
“letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or
they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and
some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in
their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully
communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy
books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of
humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as
literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
―
Brent weeks
“A
well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
―
Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
“I
am a part of everything that I have read.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“Reading
is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
―
Proust-M
“If
all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would
offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“It
is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her
Own Making
