#book

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

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

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

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

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#internet #irony #sam-roth #internet

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) ↗

— John Clute

#charles-nodier #nodier #dreams

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. ↗