#ok

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#writing #want

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ↗

— Diane Duane

#reading #want

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#want

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #religion #science #religion

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#jokes #like #look #making #mind

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. ↗

— Stephen King

#guns #person

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reading #we-are-what-we-eat #we-are-what-we-read #you-are-what-you-eat #you-are-what-you-read

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#reading #rights #right

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#good-books #truth #writers #bad