#ok

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#literature #self-discovery #path

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#friends

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. ↗

— Paxton Hood

#choosing #reading #reading-books #influence

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#cliche #novels #originality #writing #influence

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#library #stupidity

‎Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#marijuana #pot-smoking #thomas-jefferson #verenda #observation

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#nabokov #quote #reader #reading #brain

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#spirit

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censorship #young

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#pieces #world #idea