#boo

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. ↗

— Mohammad Hatta

#indonesia #prison

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#lonely

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#on-fiction #reality #truth #truth

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #reading #childhood

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#internet #irony #sam-roth #internet

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) ↗

— John Clute

#charles-nodier #nodier #dreams

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. ↗

— George Sand

#cannot #fire #life #our #out

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ↗

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

#knowledge

I have never been able to resist a book about books. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#books #reading #resistance