#book

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #history #literature #literature-quotes

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages.But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #tragedy #tessa-gray

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#starting-a-book #writing #writing-advice #writing-fiction #writing-advice

On the Writing Process: "When in doubt, take it out., ↗

— Barbara DaCosta

#children-s-books #mystery #picture-books #short-stories #writing-advice

Halfway back up the hillside, Cecilia reached behind her, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world for Brian to lean forward to take her hand. ↗

— T. Davis Bunn

#love #romance #the-book-of-hours #love

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#love

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal.... ↗

— Martin Edwards

#books #knowledge #love

I won't let ignorance murder the people I love. ↗

— Melissa West

#gravity #the-taking-book-one #love

People hide the truth to protect those they love! ↗

— Craig Mercier

#hero #inpirational #philosphy #self-help #self-help-book

«“Everybody is in trouble with my dad. My dad only sort of gets the Internet. My dad started looking up all his old enemies on Facebook. My dad picks big flamewar fights. It’s like my dad just discovered that people can talk about politics without his permission. Facebook is like his new drug, he’s getting all sweaty and manic... Farfalla, is Facebook the work of the Devil? Google is ‘not evil,’ but nobody ever said that Facebook was ‘not evil.’”» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#google #internet #social-network #love