January 2011
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire...”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay (via bookoasis)
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mandabythesea)
“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread,...”
– Nick Hornby; The Polysyllabic Spree (via wordpainting)
“‘What really knocks me out,’ [says Holden] ‘is a book that, when you’re all done...”
– J.D.Salinger (Catcher In The Rye)
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“Sometimes I wonder if the stories you tell begin to tug at your life, begin to...”
– Shadow Spinner-Susan Fletcher (via kizamon)
“Thoughts are divine.”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via awritersruminations)
“Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang...”
– Henry Van Dyke (via bellethestargazer)
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent...”
– Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...”
– Roald Dahl (via prettybooks)
1 of every 10 people born is gay. That means 1 of...
“‘All literature is allegory’, he was saying, ‘You only know yourself, your own...”
– W. H. Auden (via giacona)
“I need words and print… I need print like an addict. I could live without it,...”
– Margaret Drabble (via prettybooks)
“Who will save me from existence? It isn’t death that I want, or life: it’s the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via antevorta)
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white...”
– “Handmaid’s Tale” Margaret Atwood (via allirrelephant)
