Books
Quotes - Beware you be not swallowed up in books!
“I
hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to
me…”
―
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars
“She
read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance,
science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in
a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
“You
could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“This
is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really
want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and
read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books.
And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.”
―
Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
“Beware
you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of
knowledge.”
―
John Wesley, Letters of John Wesley
“If
you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
―
Roald Dahl
“He
ate and drank the precious words,
His
spirit grew robust;
He
knew no more that he was poor,
Nor
that his frame was dust.
He
danced along the dingy days,
And
this bequest of wings
Was
but a book. What liberty
A
loosened spirit brings!”
―
Emily Dickinson
“I’d
volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am
free.”
―
Mohammad Hatta
“Any
book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.”
―
Fulton Sheen, The Quotable Fulton Sheen: A Topical Compilation of the Wit,
Wisdom, and Satire of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
“What
is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it
towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
―
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy
“What
is reading but silent conversation.”
―
Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
“Before
he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly
did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if
each page was a hole into another world.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“Allowing
yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a
few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the
literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you
look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own
decisions.”
―
Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
“I
can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her
stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over
them.”
―
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Fantasy
is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis
lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab.
Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and
wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.”
―
George R.R. Martin
“.
. . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped
dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
“We
lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both
good for you and loads of fun.”
―
Kevin Smokler, Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All
Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the
Art -- ... Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload
“The
walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation
against the present world and its disasters.”
―
Ross McDonald
“One
little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there
were none.”
―
Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
“You've
read half the books in this house? This whole house?"
"Well,
approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose
I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three
sevenths? Yes, three sevenths."
"Only
three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And
here I was prepared to be impressed.”
―
Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
“I'm
not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has
to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the
end.”
―
Jeff Kinney
“read
thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are
the weapons that defeat terrorism.”
―
Malala Yousafzai
“Dear
and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one
hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.”
―
Anton Chekhov
“Books
are for nothing but to inspire”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
