#books

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ↗

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

#knowledge

I have never been able to resist a book about books. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#books #reading #resistance

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#uncertainty

Ah yes, now you’re beginning to feel it. It’s so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart—if I had one. ↗

— Jaye Frances

#ebooks #fantasy #fiction #jaye-frances #kdp-select

You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it. ↗

— Robert Karl Hanson

#animation #cartoon #children-s-book #cute #kid-s-books

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#reading #manners

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#literacy #reading #mankind

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#library #readers #greed

Never trust a man who reads only one book. ↗

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#adventure

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. ↗

— Eileen Favorite

#brontës #biology