#ok

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#insp #reading #reading-books #dreams

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers. ↗

— Kat Lowe

#book-preservation #reading #dreams

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

#dreams #ground #lie #look #senses

Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#dreams

In Chicago, we love our crooks! ↗

— David Mamet

#crooks #love #our

All of my books now come from readers' ideas. ↗

— Ann Rule

#come #ideas #now #readers

Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #relationships #true-love #experience

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. ↗

— David Eddings

#librarians #libraries #library #scholar #scholarship

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#costs #look #lot #money

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. ↗

— Helen Hodgman

#life #life-s-too-short #writing #life