#boo

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#books

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time - not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. ↗

— Colin Firth

#reading #novel

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand ↗

— Robert Allen

#business-ebooks-and-audiobooks #digital-ebooks #inspirational-ebooks #motivational-ebooks #business

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water. ↗

— Mark Twain

#writing #water

I was with book, as a woman is with child. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#child

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. ↗

— Jean Fritz

#christmas

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