#book

Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?' Customer's friend: 'Jesus. ↗

— Jen Campbell

#books #humor #humor

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#greek-tragedy #humor #reading #humor

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book. ↗

— Betty MacDonald

#candy #cozy #reading #mac

Good call, Bob. ↗

— Jan Thomas

#humor #humor

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#dialogue #introspective #sad #death

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#imagination

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another. ↗

— Amy Plum

#escape #imagination-reading #read #universe #world

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#censorship #imagination

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#imagination #inspiration #imagination

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#imagination