October 2011
74 posts
“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”
– Virginia Woolf (via myquotelibrary)
Tardis Bookshelf = Awesome!
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“E-books are fantastic at keeping us reading; traditional books are great at...”
– —Michael Popek in his Wall Street Journal piece headlined “I’m a Used Bookseller, and I’m Not Afraid of E-Books.” Popek is the author of Forgotten Bookmarks and a bookseller at his family’s used bookstore in Oneonta, N.Y.
“You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say...”
– William Shakespeare (via beaubooks)
“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”
– Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers...”
– Marcel Proust (via myquotelibrary)
“The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human...”
– —Author Philip Pullman in a speech at the Library Campaign’s conference, printed in the Bookseller
“I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win...”
– Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go (via lost-in-words)
Fall's Best Children's Books According To Children...
wattpad:
Wouldn’t children’s book reviews be so much better if they were written by, well, children?
This season contains some unusual treats, including a new book from “Where The Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak and a posthumously published volume of poems by Shel Silverstein. Pulitzer-prizewinner Michael Chabon also took a shot at his first children’s book.
Which ones will keep the...
“In the afternoon we try to take a walk. Last week we went to a very good book...”
– —Fabio Luisi, the Italian conductor who has been “pinch-hitting on a semi-permanent basis’ for James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, in aNew York Times ”Sunday Routine” profile.
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
– David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The...”
– Sean Connery (via booksandnerds)
“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via winterbitten)
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will...”
– Lemony Snicket (via tarhi)
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...”
– Mortimer J. Adler (via myquotelibrary)
“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
– George Steiner (via myquotelibrary)
“Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are...”
– Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (via the-womanifesto)
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
– CS Lewis (via myquotelibrary)
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
– Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your...”
– Charles Dickens (via myquotelibrary)
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“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
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