In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you...
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.
Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!
Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
It will be awesome audiobooks to go like films, but more longer!
No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery.
I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.
The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.
One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline o...
The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books...
I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.
I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.
You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, beca...
But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.