I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.
Cosa c’è di meglio, in realtà, che starsene la sera accanto al fuoco con un bel libro in mano, mentre il vento sbatte contro le persiane e arde il lume della lampada?
There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
I just read few books, and this books made a magic in my life.
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it.
Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story'...
Never a day without a line.
I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour...
Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing...
The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by...The easy chair, the shaded la...
You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.