#boo

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #writing #life

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#read #life

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#life #life

A good book is an event in my life. ↗

— Stendhal

#literature #reading #life

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#reading #life

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#reading #life

A room without books is like a life without meaning. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#books #life

I cannot see myself nowhere, except to be living in the land of books. Somewhere on a distant island exists an intellegence of pure thought, but a heart of an angel. This entity will be able to discern between the true wisdoms of life and a superficial reality. Speak and guide me on this unknown journey of education. ↗

— Patricia H. Graham

#education #education

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#characters #life #life

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#life #life