“Books give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.”
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop - Lewis Buzbee
Weekend 19-20 July 2014
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
— Mark Twain
18 July 2014
“Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”
— Laura Miller
17 July 2014
“In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
— Junot Díaz
16 July 2014
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
15 July 2014
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
— This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
14 July 2014
“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
Weekend 12 - 13 July
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
— The Book Of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
11 July 2014
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
— Ray Bradbury
10 July 2014
“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
9 July 2014
“I’ve always been into ‘fast-paced, don’t bore ‘em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.’ You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story.”
— James Patterson
8 July 2014
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’”
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
7 July 2014
“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.”
— Neil Gaiman
Weekend 5-6 July 2014
“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.”
— Jeanette Winterson
3-4 July 2014
“You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.”
— Holly Black
2 July 2014
“He fed his spirit with the bread of books.”
— Edwin Markham
1 July 2014
“Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.”
— Late Night Bookworms - A.J.B.
30 June 2014
“Life is short, so people should read whatever they damn well please.”
— Julianne Ross
Weekend 28 - 29 June
“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
— The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
27 June 2014
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
— Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë