#book

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#book #exploit #great #hold #i

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#books #broad-mindedness #classic #education #imagery

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#experience

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

#food

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? ↗

— Mark Twain

#food

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#books #reader #reading #speaking #thinking

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#writing #want

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ↗

— Diane Duane

#reading #want

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#want

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #religion #science #religion