One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time.
Carl SaganTags: books
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran LebowitzTags: wisdom reading books thinking reader advice-for-daily-living speaking
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
Diane SetterfieldTags: reading books re-reading
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Michael CrichtonTags: books on-writing rewritten written
It is time to float on the waters of the night.
Time to wrap my arms around this book
and press it to my chest, life preserver
in a sea of unremarkable men and women,
anonymous faces on the street,
a hundred thousand unalphabetized things,
a million forgotten hours.
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
Oliver GoldsmithGive me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
John KeatsMilitary people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
Leonora CarringtonTags: books writing military novelists
Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses
Steve AylettTags: books
I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.
Steve AylettTags: books
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