#book

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

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#escapism #life #reading #life

there are some things in life a person just cant know ↗

— Sarah Weeks

#life

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#reading #writing #self-worth

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #stories #life

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#books #reading #stories #story #life

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ↗

— Jesse Lee Bennett

#life #life