Books Quotes - I hoard books. They are people who do not leave

 

Books Quotes - I hoard books. They are people who do not leave 

“If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.”

― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue

 

“So here is my story, may it bring

Some smiles and a tear or so,

It happened once upon a time,

Far away, and long ago,

Outside the night wind keens and wails,

Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!”

― Brian Jacques, Lord Brocktree

 

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

― Joseph Brodsky

 

“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

 

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”

― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

 

“But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

 

“I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?”

― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

 

“You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts.”

― Marie Lu, Warcross

 

“The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.”

― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

 

“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

 

Literature is common ground. It is ground not managed wholly by commercial interests, nor can it be strip-mined like popular culture—exploit the new thing then move on.

 

There’s a lot of talk about the tame world versus the wild world. It is not only a wild nature that we need as human beings; it is the untamed open space of our imaginations.

 

Reading is where the wild things are.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

 

“He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design."

 

"You say this as if you envied him."

 

"There are worse prisons than words.”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

 

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

 

“No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...”

― Anne Lamott

 

“A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

 

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

― Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring

 

“A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.”

― Jorge Luis Borges

 

“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”

― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

 

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children's books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.”

― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

 

“The book's always better than the movie.”

― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

 

“Dismissed like a dog. Damon groped for his jacket behind him, found it, and wished that his groping for his sense of humor could be as successful. The faces around him were all the same. They could have been carved in stone.

But not stone as hard as that that was coming together again around his soul. That rock was remarkably quick to mend—and an extra layer was added, like the layering of a pearl, but not covering anything nearly so pretty.”

― L.J. Smith (The Vampire Diaries: The Return Volume 1: Nightfall)

 

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun