#book

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#life #life

A good book is an event in my life. ↗

— Stendhal

#literature #reading #life

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#reading #life

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#reading #life

A room without books is like a life without meaning. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#books #life

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #people #truth #life

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#life #life

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#kelsey #reading #the-thing-about-the-truth #life

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#cannot #children #complicated #interest #much