I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.
Walter Tevis
18 August 2014
Life happened because I turned the pages.
- Alberto Manguel
Weekend 16-17 August 2014
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don’t mind.
Adam Foulds
12 August 2014
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
— Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society
11 August 2014
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
- Flannery O’Connor
Weekend 9-10 August 2014
You look like a winter night. I could sleep inside the cold of you.
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
8 August 2014
Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.
Ernest Hemingway (‘Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter’)
7 August 2014
Sometimes it’s better not to look back.
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
6 August 2014
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.
John Green
5 August 2014
She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal chord of each book. It sounded like an instrument, or the notes of running feet.
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
4 August 2014
“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
— John Waters
Weekend 2-3 August
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
— Henry David Thoreau
1 August 2014
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
— Emily Dickinson
31 July 2014
“I find it hard to name the one book that was so damn delightful it changed my life. The truth is, they have all changed my life, every single one of them—even the ones I hated. Books are my version of “experiences.” I’m made of them.”
— What It Means To Be Addicted to Reading - Zadie Smith
30 July 2014
“When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.”
— Meg Rosoff
29 July 2014
“She belonged in libraries and book stores. She left her heart between the pages of her books.”
— likearegularbookworm.com/
Weekend 26-27 July 2014
“He didn’t take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.”
— Landline - Rainbow Rowell
24 July 2014
“I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
— It's Kind Of A Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
23 July 2014
22 July 2014
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Ernest Hemingway