Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.
Andrew KaufmanTags: truth reading books stories reading-books
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: books greatness popularity sales bestseller bestsellerism
A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk.
George MacDonaldI will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reading books criticism subjectivity book-reviews
I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.
Robin SloanTags: books robots immortality
The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.
Yangsze ChooI think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in.
So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.
Tags: reading books escapism escape
Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.
Shannon L. AlderTags: kindness books opportunities self-help chances redemption making-amends reaching-out choices-based-on-faith rising-above-yourself truth-self
All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: books writing authors short-stories
I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
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