Books Quotes - Page 18

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn't involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn't hunt inoffensive animals, either. They did what he told them to. So, he'd said, he wanted to write.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else’s past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times.

I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
each one stitched into his own private coat,
together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would have been radical, if disappointment in love, and total solitude, had not conspired to bring on a relapse.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.'