Books Quotes - Page 19

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

Christopher Scotton

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.

Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence.

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps dwelt in for years.

Richelle E. Goodrich

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

Jerry J.C. Veit

I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

The fort.Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.

Michelle Cuevas

Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.

There are so many wonderful places created in my mind simply from the books I have read, I have been transported to some unforgettable, magic places but there are so many more I wish to visit and so little time that I fear I never will.

Roxie Hibberd (Smith ) ME

A life without books is like body without a soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.

Malcolm Bradbury

I love you silly 'holy' book. Here's hoping everybody un-reads it.

Fakeer Ishavardas

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.

Lauren DeStefano

I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be.

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests.

Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

When you don't have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that's when the best works are born.

Vishwas Mudagal

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Books are readable drugs.

Carla H. Krueger

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.

Writing's much more romantic when its pen and ink and paper. It's... More timeless. and worthwhile. Think about it. There are so many words gushing out into the universe these days. All digitally. All in Comic Sans or Times New Roman. Silly Websites. Stupid news stories digitally uploaded to a 24-hour channel. Where's all this writing going? Who's keeping a note of it all? Who's in charge of deciding what's worthwhile and what isn't? But back then... Back then, if someone wanted to write something they had to buy paper. Buy it! And ink. And a pen. And they couldn't waste too many sheets cos it was expensive. So when people wrote, they wrote because it was worthwhile... not just because they had some half-baked idea and they wanted to pointlessly prove their existence by sharing it on some bloody social networking site.

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

Kelseyleigh Reber

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There's a reason my only friends are written words

Victoria Aveyard

O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

William Shakespeare

He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked.

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.

George Ivanovic

I like to think of books as lovers; you have to introduce yourself slowly to them, read them one page at a time. Notice them, appreciate them. Respect what they're trying to tell you, let their words caress you, then sink into you, and finally, become a part of you.

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing..

With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark out places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

How does one say something new and not retell?

Dejan Stojanovic

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Dejan Stojanovic

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

Dejan Stojanovic

Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.

Dejan Stojanovic

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

Dejan Stojanovic

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

Dejan Stojanovic

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

Dejan Stojanovic

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Dejan Stojanovic

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Dejan Stojanovic

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Dejan Stojanovic

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

Dejan Stojanovic

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Dejan Stojanovic

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Dejan Stojanovic

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