#books

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#knowledge #reading #life

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#books #brothers #doctor #due #educational

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his. ↗

— John Crowley

#books #eyes #love #sylvie #life

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ↗

— John Ruskin

#classes #divisible #hour #into #time

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#brought #came #every #months #parents

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspirations #books #could #course #each

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#boxes #brother #collector #comic #comic books

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. ↗

— David Simon

#came #detective #die #down #had

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores