#boo

If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You might even feel sheepish about the fact that you reread Pride and Prejudice or The Lord of the Rings, or The Catcher in the Rye or Gone With the Wind every couple of years with some much pleasure. Perhaps, like me, you're even a little suspicious of their claims, because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly - or the ones we'd most like other people to think we read over and over again. ↗

— Laura Miller

#lit #reading #love

God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#book-lover #chiyson #greater-glory #jaachynma #quotes

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#barack-obama #be-different #book-reading #chiyson #good-life

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve. ↗

— Theodora Goss

#blog-post #books #reading #writing #writing-advice

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be. ↗

— Theodora Goss

#blog-post #books #reading #writing #writing-advice

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones... ↗

— Colin Meloy

#decemberists #engine-driver #love #home

I shake my head. "Not my kind of scene. I'd rather be home with my book boyfriend." "I'll never get what you book sluts get out of a fictional man…" He shakes his head. "Boys in books are better. ↗

— Danielle Torella

#books #men #home

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#books #humor #mind #wit #humor

Life is a journey through a foreign land. ↗

— O.R. Melling

#life #the-book-of-dreams #dreams

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational-quotes #experience