#books

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#reading #genius

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#ships #the-night-circus #sea

No furniture is so charming as books. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#furniture #memoir

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. ↗

— Alessandro Baricco

#nostalgia

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#classics

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. ↗

— Aberjhani

#books #creativity #determination #dreams #endurance

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#breeze #dejan-stojanovic #forgotten #literature #literature-quotes

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) ↗

— Tara Michener

#bullying #children-s-books #childrens-literature #self-esteem #literature-quotes

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#confluence #creative-process #ideas #writing #writing-process

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #escape #lie #lies #literature