#books

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier. ↗

— R.S. Vern

#animated #cat-haee #cathaee #children-s-books #dark

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels. ↗

— Clementine Holzinger

#humor #reading #romance-novels #humor

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #love

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.' ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#author #books #reading #richelle #richelle-goodrich

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#reading #life

I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us. ↗

— David Farland

#critics #fantasy #writing #love

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#literature #meaning #power #words #literature

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ↗

— Tom Waits

#literature #writing #literature

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#stories #monsters

What is reading but silent conversation. ↗