“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
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Existence has over books. Today I slew a mushroom. ~ Emily Dickinson
A Pondering Moment
sit back relax with a book and try to put the heat and the high humidity behind you
My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
Books are the carriers of civilization …
Books are the carriers of civilization … They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
Cup of Coffee ~ Anthony Trollope
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Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries. ~ Meg Cabot
Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. ~ Chris Klein
I’ll read my books ….
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. […]
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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King
A Single Conversation … ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To read a book …..
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ Chinese Saying
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain
Laws die, books never. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Unread Story… ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Author – Born: October 21, 1929
“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.” ~ John Ruskin
John Ruskin – English art critic 1819-1900
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
Henry Rollins Quote
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ~ Louis L’Amour
A book is like a man: ~ John Steinbeck
A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. ~ […]
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Books – Arnold Lobel
Books to the ceiling. Books to the sky. My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time read them. ~Arnold Lobel
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. ~ Italo Calvino
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650
“Books are a habit-forming drug.” ~ Agatha Christie
Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan
Advantage Of Reading A Book
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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ~ Franz Kafka
I Think A Writer’s Job Is To Provoke Questions. ~ Doris Lessing Quote
“I think a writer’s job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone’s read a book of mine, they’ve had – I don’t know what – the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That’s what I think writers are for. This […]
“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” ~ Stephen King
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ~ Jane Smiley
“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.” ~ Carolyn Heilbrun
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Books Are The Perfect Entertainment ~ Stephen King
Born: September 21, 1947
Cornelia Funke ~ If I Was A Book
If I was book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all kinds of different kids. -Cornelia Funke, German Author
Reading A Book
Carl Sagan Quotation
Book Hangover – This Can Be A Good Thing
Comforts
couch book black coffee ac is on the comforts of home
E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
J.D. Salinger Quote
William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner
Great Books
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. ~John Green
Summer Sky
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson, C.1879
Good Books
Jerry Seinfeld Quote
If a book about failures dosen’t sell, is it a success? ~Jerry Seinfeld
Quote ~ Al Pacino
“You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.” – Al Pacino
Books
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov
Old Books
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Thinking
Occupation: Professor
Conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Public Libraries
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. ~Henry Rollins
Books
Friend
There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway
The Eyes
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Amendment
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. -Thurgood Marshall Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
Feelings
Born: March 26, 1930 – Died: January 17, 2001 Occupation: Poet
People Are Best…
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Good Books…
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Read Books…
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A House Without Books…
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Franz Kafka
Books are a narcotic. -Franz Kafka
Rainy Days
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Books ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Books…
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything else. -Plato
On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami
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Jonathan Franzen Quote On Reading
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Louis Carroll
What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures and conversation? Lewis Carroll
Robertson Davies
Born: August 28, 1913 – Died: December 2, 1995 Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, professor and critic.
Don’t Finish Crappy Books – Chris Brogan
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Saul Bellow On Libraries
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Jane Austen On Reading
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Library Quote By Lemony Snicket
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T.S. Eliot On Libraries
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Ralph Waldo Emerson On Remembering
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Reading Quote By William Nicholson
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Chinese Proverb
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Books
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Mark Twain Quote
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Why we read: authors and readers on the power of literature
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A book a day keeps reality away
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Manhattan book towers
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Happiness – Leo Tolstoy
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How to get up and get dressed
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Quote From Kurt Vonnegut’s Book, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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J.D. Salinger Quote On Reading A Book
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Reading Quote – Bertrand Russell
There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it. – Bertrand Russell
Libraries – Doris Lessing
Books – George Carlin Quote
Books
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. -Mark Twain
Books
Reading Question
Tuesday Morning Quote
Tuesday Morning Quote
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.” – Michel de Montaigne http://www.bquot.es/s/3295
