#boo

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#reading #attention

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#sleep

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese? ↗

— Stephen King

#commencement #intellect #steven-king #college

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#reading #library

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#medicine

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#favorite-books #body

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read. ↗

— Donita K. Paul

#books #donita #donita-k-paul #dragon #dragonquest

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves! ↗

— Jan Karon

#books #literacy #reading #space

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#books #brains #sleep #underwear #authority