#books

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #life

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#power #life

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#reading #love

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. ↗

— David Mitchell

#love #reading #love

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#energy policy #jobs #lack #our #out

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#books #dead #his #hope #i

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#amazon #another #because #being #books

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#clear #complicated #good #good reason #many