#books

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics. ↗

— Leah Price

#ipad #kindle #technology #love

The book and I secret ourselves Behind the paneled door. We merge our thoughts in retrospect Of ancient mystic lore. We spend a pleasant quiet hour, Nor know it passed us by... The easy chair, the shaded lamp, A well-loved book and I. ↗

— Edna Moore Schultz

#reading #love

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#love

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal.... ↗

— Martin Edwards

#books #knowledge #love

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] ↗

— Mo Willems

#writing #love

Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! ↗

— Airambooksie

#quotes-about-writing #quotes-for-women #quotes-for-writers #love

Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#genre-fiction #reading #historical-fiction

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #flowers

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#jocks #kid-s-books #funny

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #reading #humor