If I were a Dr., Iβd prescribe books. They can be just as powerful as drugs.
Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made.
I cannot BELIEVE the nerve of some people, dog-earing the pages of the books! Do they think they OWN the books? I think you should give a bookmark to every single person who checks out a book. I mean it. THEY ARE RUINING EVERYTHING! I will help make the bookmarks if that's what it takes.
I have always found that making allowances for a liberal amount of fiction in oneβs life is necessary to maintaining equanimity. How else does one escape, even for a short time, from the drudgery that everyday life affords?
β¦ Becoming a reader is a change for the better. Trust me. No one has ever lost by becoming addicted to stories β to the lessons learned by those who possess enough courage to put pen to paper.
And yet it is within the powers of a boring book to bore even the mind of God, as God well knows.
I like to read people rather than books.
The lamp fell right on the pile of books that had been knocked from the table all in a heap, lying open. The oil spilled out, the fire immediately seized a fragile parchment, which blazed up like a bundle of dry twigs. Everything happened in a few moments, as for centuries those ancient pages had been yearning for arson and were rejoicing in the sudden satisfaction of an immemorial thirst for ecpyrosis.
My taste for life is different. And, itβs always been that way.
Books turn out to be pretty durable if they're kept away from damp and rats. They can last hundreds of years, easy. Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even thought these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time.
Read fiction to open your mind to greater possibilities and read non-fiction to learn the constraints of dreams and the facts that might guide you to attain one.
There's only one way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's. I unwedged the leatherbound book from beneath my mattress and breathed in the ink-and-adventure smell of it. I walked through it into another world.
In some real life situations there is something of the Fairy Tale. Sometimes, we forget, that magic is there for the making, and the makers are ourselves. Sometimes, it is our enemies who spur us on. For a challenge is nothing without striving. We admire a hero who earns good fortune, who strives to be a better person, who acts in the interests of others against dark forces that would bring them down. In Fairy Tales, the ultimate winners are good and true.
the fact that youβll never know what sort of person you might have been if youβd read different stuff
Books can teach you many nice comebacks.
I felt like a woman reading a mystery novel with every fourth line missing. There's really only one thing a person can do when they're hip-deep in a mystery novel: keep reading.
This special, one-of-a-kind key: the unique mix of books and stories that he would choose to read. Different from everyone else on the planet. His blanks to fill in. His Once Upon a Time.
Reading remains one of the purest things I do.
I never saw my mother again, but I carried her with me always.
Authors. We write to pretend we're not crazy for talking to ourselves.
