#ok

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#infinite-jest #books

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#bookstore #towns #books

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗

— Horace Mann

#house #simile #windows #books

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

— Jane Austen

#catherine #or-the-bower #books

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#castle #self #books

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#books

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time - not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. ↗

— Colin Firth

#reading #novel

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand ↗

— Robert Allen

#business-ebooks-and-audiobooks #digital-ebooks #inspirational-ebooks #motivational-ebooks #business

We all use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#present