#boo

We must therefore be willing to get shaken up, to submit ourselves to the dark blossomings of chaos, in order to reap the blessings of growth. ↗

— Gregg Levoy

#self-help-book #spiritual #inspirational

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor) ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#books #bücherverbrennung #freedom-of-thought #human-rights #meinungsfreiheit

Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their profound influence will endure. ↗

— David Marshall

#inspirational #change

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. ↗

— Kanye West

#autograph #book #books #i #i am

The real war will never get in the books. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#get #never #real #real war #war

No two persons ever read the same book. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#ever #persons #read #same #two

I was into comic books as a kid. ↗

— Len Wiseman

#comic #comic books #i #into #kid

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world. ↗

— Tom Kane

#horror #paranormal #change

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#myth #novels #reading-books #art