About Books Quotes
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.
Little mouse, " a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Be careful, " Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
You said you were allowed to lose it, ' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.
Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.
Read the great books, gentlemen, ” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.
That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.
Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.
If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)
With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing, how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.
Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing..
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.
The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.
The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I...I don't even know if I want to be saved.
