Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.
David AlmondTag: inspirational advice books adventure book reader discovery readers covers
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish.
There is my desert.
Tag: writing silence book desert
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
Stephen KingI feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
L.M. MontgomeryEvery book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónAs we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.
Dean KoontzTag: critic book bondage book-critic wicked-looking
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
Yann MartelViolence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades
Keith CollierTag: fantasy book best prince sword blade series sorcery blades ishtaria malian seller tram wot
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
Nora EphronTag: humor read book die end dark-side know last-page first finish
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: reading books book library
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