#book

I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Commercial fantasy, for good or for ill, tends to drag itself through already existing furrows, furrows dug by J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, leaving a world of stories behind it, excluding so much. There was so much fine fiction, fiction allowing free reign to the imagination of the author, beyond the shelves of genre. That was what we wanted to read. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fantasy #writing #imagination

Rooke had no idea whether the natives had a word for treachery. His conversations with Tagaran had never traveled in that direction. Even in English, treachery was a word with a broader reach than it was entitled to. What it boiled down to was that the men in this hut had been taught to fight by certain rules. Not fighting in accordance with those rules was treachery. (in reference to the aboriginals as they fought the English- English method vs. American or connection to - American vs. terrorist). ↗

— Kate Greenway

#men

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being. ↗

— Donalyn Miller

#reading #change

The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#authorship #being-a-writer #book-power #kytka #potential

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#ficbookreviews-fave #life #dreams

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got? ↗

— Bill Maher

#exes #facebook #funny #humor #internet

En África, cuando un anciano muere, una biblioteca arde, toda una biblioteca desaparece, sin necesidad de que las llamas acaben con el papel ↗

— Amadou Hampâté Bâ

#death #library #love #death

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

#delightful #reading #love

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. ↗

— Anne Rice

#absolutely #along #authentic #book #bring

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #literary-criticism #humor