#books

Goodwill to Spazzy up in gerbil heaven. Sorry sorry sorry. I stopped eating meat the day of the massacre, as penance for Spazzy. I've been a vegetarian since age six, all for the love of a gerbil. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#humor #age

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#cannot #children #complicated #interest #much

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Life happened because I turned the pages. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#literature #reading #words #life

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#happiness #life #reading #self-sufficiency #life

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life? ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#bookworms #people #reading #life

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#viewing-others #life

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#reading #reading-books #life

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#brooks #life #survival #life

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life #reading #life