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977f03c The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. books humor classic Jane Austen
8e41a34 Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. fairy-tales books inspirational paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton dragons Neil Gaiman
8aedea1 Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. dogs friends books humor Groucho Marx
715ed93 You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. reading books inspirational tea C.S. Lewis
1d7bdbc What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. literature reading writing books J.D. Salinger
04dde88 Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. reading books life inspirational Gustave Flaubert
a801e29 And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. politics books Kurt Vonnegut
fb8bb86 When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. books inspirational Margaret Walker
1a7f5f3 I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. reading books inspirational on-writing Robert Louis Stevenson
a333fa8 Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. reading books inspirational Louis L'Amour
2b2717c We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence books inspirational Philip Pullman
6c21eba Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. books C.S. Lewis
c44e0ed Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. library books inspirational Maya Angelou
982b4df Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. story reading fiction books read stories Hilary Mantel
3707f62 To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. escape reading books life good-habits refuge pleasure W. Somerset Maugham
375ed2e Books were safer than other people anyway. books book-quotes bookworms love-for-books Neil Gaiman
c003b02 Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. fiction writing books inspirational on-fiction John Cheever
9ebcee6 People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. books religious inspirational literacy Malcolm X
c749226 The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. reading books book-lovers readers Patricia A. McKillip
5f8457e Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. reading books pg-84 senator-pococurante opinions fame taste judgment independent-thought Voltaire
c30924c There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. reading books fantasy education jrr-tolkien children-s-literature ayn-rand real-world life-changing lord-of-the-rings John Rogers
65e4482 Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. books music Daniel Keyes
21a51b9 "Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat." books coming-of-age lewis-carroll Lewis Carroll
ab12b03 I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five...I had a shutting-off feeling...that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK . writing books bloom finished slaughterhouse-five book complete flowers awareness Kurt Vonnegut
76356db When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. books life inspirational stargirl tears Jerry Spinelli
abdc7e5 "When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife. young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book belief value children-s-books Philip Pullman
92258b9 I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. writing books beauty music life chaos painting W. Somerset Maugham
a115307 Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species. fiction books on-fiction John Green
da7c425 We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up. war history books burial history-repeating-itself winning generations remember lonely grave Ray Bradbury
7faffe1 There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. books inspirational companionship Philip Pullman
8402dfd Nobody steals books but your friends. irony books friendship inspirational stealing Roger Zelazny
ba2c86e Quiet people have the loudest minds. steven-king dark reading books inspirational inspiring-quotes authors minds quotes horror writers Stephen King
cccd81e "I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world. young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book plot belief value children-s-books paraphrased philip pullman
1c5a9b6 Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery. covers discovery books inspirational adventure advice book readers reader David Almond
9513286 What an author doesn't know could fill a book. books knowledge Holly Black
55544d3 Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. books banned-books-week freedom-to-read intellectual-freedom ideas censorship Laurie Halse Anderson
f172b07 I wanted to live among books. books Alberto Manguel
4214a24 Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. reading books inspirational Neil Gaiman
2a9d78f A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. words reading books life language Henry David Thoreau
efa31d2 "I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I wake up sad. To find small bits of friendship in a crowd full of strangers. To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying "I thought of you. I hope you're well." No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it. lovely gratitude happy trying feelings depression joy books learning life-quotes sadness friendship heart heal anxiety-disorder being-happy bus december mental-wellness panic-attacks minimalism breath deep self-care mindfulness healing prose plan breathing growing-up well sky worrying worries emotions panic moment regret learn recovery lonely sad night mental-health letters Charlotte Eriksson
bfcd699 An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers. books J.R. Ward
9e81523 I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. literature books J.R.R. Tolkien
ebc08f0 To read is to empower books inspirational Jane Evershed
d9be0ed Books fall open, you fall in books inspirational reading-books David McCord
dfe8e9e I have never been able to resist a book about books. reading books Anne Fadiman
df699cf "Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder." writing books sam-gamgee frodo endings happy-endings lotr J.R.R. Tolkien
da71255 Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most. books inspirational Richard Denney
5e32593 Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. reading immortality books rebirth reader Alberto Manguel
c59f917 Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books. reading books inspirational teens Jackson Pearce
41a93ce "My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch." travel opportunity books jhumpa-lahiri the-namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
e5a4be5 Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. story reading books stories Anne Fadiman
c2c5ec4 The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. books inspirational read Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
2d94a2b Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell books inspirational-quotes best-quote-ever book-clubs face-book-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry perspectives authors encouragement quotes bookstores Oprah Winfrey
1dc5822 Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages? books faces shop windows face shops window pages search Virginia Woolf
8e1b8dd "Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep--""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said Tessa" -- poetry books fandom fandom-talk literarature the-clockwork-angel tid william-herondale the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale cassandra-clare bookworms Cassandra Clare
a5378e1 Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. books art Yann Martel
331ffaa The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. library reading feelings books smell mood read experience Betty Smith
75a2735 My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. reading books read Alberto Manguel
3f0c2fe Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good. reading books society reader Alberto Manguel
c580277 "Still. Four words. And I didn't realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear Neil, If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children's area, what would it be? Thanks! Lynn I pondered a bit. I'd said a lot about books and kids' reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me, and this is what I wrote: I'm not sure I'd put a quote up, if it was me, and I had a library wall to deface. I think I'd just remind people of the power of stories, and why they exist in the first place. I'd put up the four words that anyone telling a story wants to hear. The ones that show that it's working, and that pages will be turned: "... and then w" books book-lover book Neil Gaiman
acea334 This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story. books Jodi Picoult
d3d7db6 Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there. library reading books Nassim Nicholas Taleb
859696d Un libro leido a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta. spanish reading books love leer libro libros book español lectura David Mitchell
cc2f1ee Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. books used-books bookstores Virginia Woolf
1c4e7f4 "She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally." literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
2c34714 In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. books Anne Fadiman
84d064b Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. reading books readers Alberto Manguel
6a0c138 There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book. books book-lovers boys book-quotes love-for-books Neil Gaiman
a6f8360 I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote , and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dictionary, but also this story of how the book came to be written in the first place. This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now. Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library? If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hairy Scary Librarian is not lurking around a corner, hiding in the shadows, Heart-Slicers at the ready, or that the punishment for your curiosity is not the whirring whine of a Driller Dragon's drill. You, dear reader, I am sure cannot what it might to be like to live in a world in which books are banned. For surely such things will never happen in the Future? Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for Heroes anymore ... And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky. reading writing books Cressida Cowell
7c9313e And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind- books big-head-xd Rick Riordan
db9de52 That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. happy fun friends books funny quote friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
cdd9695 Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. reading books titles Alberto Manguel
efbf7c7 I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books. library books Laurie R. King
df1c761 People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else. books songs hijack brain Douglas Coupland
3b3a6a9 ..reading a book doesn't mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination. reading books occupy how-to occupy-wall-street book Noam Chomsky
12f4357 Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive. reading books book-reading lived vicarious feel lives V.C. Andrews
fcc9e61 He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends. reading books love-of-reading love-of-books reader book-quotes Victor Hugo
c600499 "Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?" literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
5f3fca0 The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. youth morality books life Haruki Murakami
c68c000 Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. reading books reader Paul Theroux
dc8af8d One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. books culture Alberto Manguel
42717eb Barack intrigued me. He was not like anyone I'd dated before, mainly because he seemed so secure. He was openly affectionate. He told me I was beautiful. He made me feel good. To me, he was sort of like a unicorn--unusual to the point of seeming almost unreal. He never talked about material things, like buying a house or a car or even new shoes. His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. He read late into the night, often long after I'd fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. He read several newspapers daily, cover to cover. He kept tabs on the latest book reviews, the American League standings, and what the South Side aldermen were up to. He could speak with equal passion about the Polish elections and which movies Roger Ebert had panned and why. reading books Michelle Obama
023979d As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. books Miguel Serrano
c6bfde6 Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. reading books subtlety readers Carol Shields
f5071d6 Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. words time literature history reading books Julian Barnes
f38d5b9 He whom the gods love dies young. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Menander
8ce7d9e It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. library books banning book-burning censorship Alberto Manguel
582a0a4 How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! war hate history fun books uncaring classism starving history-repeating-itself cave bombs forgotten rich poor mistakes ignorance Ray Bradbury
92f7996 There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. books death ways-to-die hiroshima wwii japan world-war-ii John Hersey
982b27f Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. jesus books record john book Anonymous
cb8c66c Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
5afcd95 I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. reading books learning being-a-reader biblioholism bookishness reader Anthony Powell
3f58d47 You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
43e891a We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land. books Umberto Eco
fb22702 I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood? dark books tana teens gavriel paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya Holly Black
004f8da In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear. freedom books censorship Judy Blume
5c15018 All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon. books yellow Markus Zusak
d6138d1 The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
b6301ed When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become , that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it. reading writing books books-and-authors books-and-reading published-books publishing metamorphosis perception Salman Rushdie
c453d6f It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all. books aemon-targaryen George R.R. Martin
94aa9ca Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
0235963 The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists? books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
4508358 Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. reading books Doris Lessing
ee16586 You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
ac897e9 I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. words literature books dreams national-poetry-month famous-quotes-from-classic-books literary-inspiration endurance nanowrimo prolific-authors writers-and-writing famous-authors the-writing-life determination language genius writers creativity jack-kerouac Aberjhani
385e756 Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
4e943cd To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. reading books book-stores london Edward Gibbon
82d3568 "Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?" literature dark romance books beautiful gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
ceccb87 I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
a8909b7 When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive books book-quotes Anaïs Nin
7a805e4 There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust. books writers Ian McEwan
056c480 Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after? tolkien books fellowship-of-the-ring J.R.R. Tolkien
68e3370 You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
7aec95b The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
f27c84d Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere. books Dodie Smith
572938c Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men books inspirational-quotes best-quote-ever book-clubs face-book-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry perspectives authors encouragement quotes bookstores Kerry E. Wagner
c8be534 What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
4e88e97 And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
f4f1474 And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
69cd6c9 When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. books anthony-burgess book-quotes Anthony Burgess
5a623d9 I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap. books Henry Miller
1f8da6a On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home. rain books snuggle judge read home oath snow Bill Watterson
bc4c519 People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world. books trust inspiration inspire life bad-luck fortunate good-luck great-fortune trustworthy passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss beliefs quotes fortune Chris Prentiss
fee373b "Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel" literature dark romance books beautiful gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
fa228bc School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic--I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit. reading books read Craig Ferguson
eb2195e Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been binding its books for sometime. books Fyodor Dostoyevsky
138f33c You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength. books book-quotes Anaïs Nin
f5847f5 I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
1fe5243 Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged books inspirational-quotes best-quote-ever book-clubs face-book-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry perspectives authors encouragement quotes bookstores Kerry E. Wagner
38d6d5f A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged books inspirational-quotes best-quote-ever book-clubs face-book-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry perspectives authors encouragement quotes bookstores Kerry E. Wagner
0ef2444 You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
ee2f1d5 We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer. words literature reading books meaning growth Vladimir Nabokov
e63af64 In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. world books secret pages Alberto Manguel
b74760f "Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe." books humor things-fall-apart random Chinua Achebe
8e4ecc6 "Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. You lock your door and assume that nobody is going to break in... but they do, and when you return home, to your horror you find that not only do these trespassers break in, but they also have quite uniquely imaginative ways of disrespecting, vandalizing and corrupting everything within your property. They light fires on your lawn, your topiary hedges are in heaps of black ashes. There's some blatantly obscene graffiti splattered across your front door, offensive images and rude words splashed on the walls and windows. Your television has been tipped over. Your photographs of family and friends have had the heads cut out of them. There's mold growing in the refrigerator, bottles of booze tipped over on the table, and cigarette smoke embedded into the carpeting. Your beloved houseplants are dead, your furniture has been stripped down and ruined. Basically, the thing you've spent years working for and creating within your lifetime has been tampered with to the point where it is just a grim joke. metaphor books funny fanfiction pervy copyright sherlock vandalism imagine house respect ghost geek grave Rebecca McNutt
42ea1d6 "Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him." literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
4a246b5 Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't. dark books monstrous pearl pearl-bach tana-s-mother wonderfully-awful tana tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown terror Holly Black
2e1b39a "Let me alone," said Mildred "Let alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!" books bothered savage talking thinking Ray Bradbury
8086bf3 Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who hadn't been where I'd been. reading books Mary Stewart Atwell
de2bd14 We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. heroes reading books imagination dreams Peter S. Beagle
ad7788f With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? mind equality free books imagination education happiness intelligence conform breach burning examiners fliers grabbers imaginative-creators jumpers knowers moutains racers runners snatchers swimmers tinkerers bright intellectual critics target image dread judgment unfamiliar judge constitution rights cowardice bullying weapons different creativity torture school Ray Bradbury
fe1b286 Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God? discoveries progress tragedy libraries poets shakespeare india light writer fiction books inspiration bible science songs intelligence alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes euclid experiments franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation trevethick volta watt Æschylus johann-wolfgang-von-goethe goethe egypt william-shakespeare Robert G. Ingersoll
7310826 His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
236a688 Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away. writing books John Bunyan
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