#book

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities. ↗

— Fran Veal

#inspirational #reading-books #inspirational

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#fiction #reading #inspirational

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature. ↗

— Anne Holm

#children #inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#heaven #land #men

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#god #religion #men

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit ↗

— Stephen King

#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#men

Once you fight the demons that live in your heart, the ones that live outside will never knock you door. ↗

— Birdy Fogh

#self-help-books #inspirational

Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards. ↗

— Jane V. Blanchard

#inspirational #inspirational

You 're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#the-graveyard-book #change