David Almond
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along....
Tag: books
Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
Nobody steals books but your friends....
John Cheever
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream....
Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in....
Louis L’Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you....
Margaret Walker
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book....
Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper
To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books....
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and...
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in...
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don’t believe them....
