#books

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#collecting #reading #life

Fact is much more fascinating than fiction. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#non-fiction-books-inspirational #inspirational

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#non-fiction-books #non-fiction-books-inspirational #writers-on-writing #writing #writing-advice

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. ↗

— Allen Lane

#publishers #intelligence

I cannot see myself nowhere, except to be living in the land of books. Somewhere on a distant island exists an intellegence of pure thought, but a heart of an angel. This entity will be able to discern between the true wisdoms of life and a superficial reality. Speak and guide me on this unknown journey of education. ↗

— Patricia H. Graham

#education #education

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#characters #life #life

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#life #life

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind ↗

— Andy Andrews

#life

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. ↗

— Sara Nelson

#reading #life

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

#life #life