What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell PhillipsTags: books education mind guns gunpowder printing-press
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Judith ButlerTags: reading books book-reading book-love
Old words are reborn with new faces.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom words books knowledge learning poetry writing understanding generations quotes faces quotations studying rebirth aphorisms new
A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.
Los Angeles TimesA book can be pocketed and discarded, scrawled and torn into pages, lost and bought again. It can be dragged out from a suitcase, opened in front of you when having a snack, revived at the moment of waking, and skimmed through once again before falling asleep. It needs no notice by phone if you can’t attend the appointment fixed in the timetable. It won’t get mad if awakened from its slumber during your sleepless nights. Its message can be swallowed whole or chewed into tiny pieces. Its content lures you for intellectual Why and What adventures and it satisfies your spirit of adventure. You can get bored of it—but it won’t ever get bored of you.
Kató LombTags: books
Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.
Terry PratchettTags: books literary-criticism library discworld
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words.
Terry PratchettTags: words books library gevaisa
Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.
Julie SchumacherTags: books
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
Michael KrügerTags: reading books reading-books reading-habits book-reading
A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.
C.J. HeckTags: books writing step-by-step don-t-get-ahead-of-yourself savor-the-moments
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