Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: reading books writing writers readers
A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: money books writing writers sense bookstore profit bookshops
Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: life reading books life-is-short
--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.
Tag: reading books sex literacy entertainment class working-class classes
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBut what is a book? And what will change if we read onscreen rather than by turning the pages of a physical object? What will we gain, and more importantly, what will we lose? Old-fashioned habits, perhaps. A certain sense of the sacred that has surrounded the book in a civilisation that has made it our holy of holies. A peculiar intimacy between the author and reader, which the context of hypertextuality is bound to damage. A sense of existing in a self-contained world that the book and, along with it, certain ways of reading used to represent.
Jean-Philippe de TonnacTag: books
Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of make-believe should (especially in this day and age) feel the need to produce anything so gratuitous. The fact that certain examples of this fare can approach the length of your average dictionary seems inherently absurd.
Dan Garfat-PrattTag: books writing fiction novels
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.
Neil GaimanTag: books writing creativity authors writing-advice gaiman neil-gaiman writing-life writing-books tumblr
The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...
S.R. FordTag: books past time-travel merlin
While we are living, our lives are like that of an open book, still being written. Eventually, our book closes for us, and to others, it will be as if we never existed at all. Those of us who write down our life story, will leave a little piece of us behind when we're gone.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)
Nina Jean SlackTag: life books people journals emotional life-stories story-of-my-life
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