Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
Erica JongTag: reading book-lover
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
Lemony SnicketTag: books book-lover
...she made her home in between the pages of books.
Maggie StiefvaterTag: grace book-lover
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.
Shannon HaleTag: books book-lover bibliophile
I prefer to be left alone with my books.
Alison WeirTag: solitude book-lover jane-grey
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
Helene HanffTag: books book-lover
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
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I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
Audrey NiffeneggerTag: book-lover
A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.
Allison Hoover BartlettTag: books book-lover artifacts
God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be.
Jaachynma N.E. AguTag: book-lover quotes success-self-improvement greater-glory the-best-option be-different jaachynma chiyson
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