#boo

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#customer-service #library #library-books #change

I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind. ↗

— Peggy Randall-Martin

#ebooks #change

The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come. ↗

— Magda M. Olchawska

#children-books #fairies #illustrated-books #kids #kids-books

These are the Disciplines that can change everything! ↗

— Mark Mullins

#business

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#change

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [Life magazine, December 10, 1965] ↗

— Rex Stout

#ideas #nature #reading #thought #life

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#salvation #teens #education

Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1). ↗

— Shawntel Jefferson

#kids-books #prayer #warfare-prayers #change

Facebook changes... Again!!! It's probably going through puberty ↗

— Manasa Rao

#puberty #change

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] ↗

— Harper Lee

#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading