“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”
Jane Hamilton (via hourglasss) (via itookadeepbreath, joyeuse) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
William Faulkner (via stanielsbookclub)
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“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
Samuel Johnson (via storiesofwordsonpaper)
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“Words in other languages are like icebergs: The basic meaning is visible above the surface, but we can only guess at the shape of the vast chambers of meaning below.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” ~Helen Exley
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ~Harper Lee
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ~Clifton Fadiman
There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ~Marina Tsvetaeva
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~E.P. Whipple
“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. ~François Mauriac
If you have never said “Excuse me” to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. ~Sherri Chasin Calvo
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, “Book Buying”
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ~Augustine Birrell
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed”
“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison”
“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown”
