Category Archives: Quotes
Michael Ende on why Bastian stole the Neverending Story
“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger — If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting
Michael Ende on why Bastian stole the Neverending Story
“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger — If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting
Henry Ward Beecher on words
“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
Steven Roger Fischer on little black marks
‘What music is to the spirit, reading is to the mind. Reading challenges, empowers, bewitches, enriches. We perceive little black marks on white paper or a PC screen and they move us to tears, open up our lives to new
Steven Roger Fischer on little black marks
‘What music is to the spirit, reading is to the mind. Reading challenges, empowers, bewitches, enriches. We perceive little black marks on white paper or a PC screen and they move us to tears, open up our lives to new
Arnold Lobel on piles of books
“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 I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
Arnold Lobel on piles of books
“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 I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
Susan Sontag on Books
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. – Susan Sontag
Anne Fadiman on plucking books more than once
‘The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.’ – Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman on plucking books more than once
‘The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.’ – Anne Fadiman
Alice Walker on connecting heart to heart
Storytelling is how we survive, when there’s no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can’t imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people’s parents, their culture. That’s how
Alice Walker on connecting heart to heart
Storytelling is how we survive, when there’s no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can’t imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people’s parents, their culture. That’s how
Ali Smith on hearing a book
‘You know when you hear a piece of music once, you haven’t heard it properly, you want to hear it again. A well-made book will reward you in exactly the same way as music does, in that you will understand
Ali Smith on hearing a book
‘You know when you hear a piece of music once, you haven’t heard it properly, you want to hear it again. A well-made book will reward you in exactly the same way as music does, in that you will understand
Anatole Broyard
“The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.” – Anatole Broyard (This makes me glad that I am a compulsive book buyer – imagine if you didn’t have a bookcase in your house,
Anatole Broyard
“The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.” – Anatole Broyard (This makes me glad that I am a compulsive book buyer – imagine if you didn’t have a bookcase in your house,
Neil Gaiman on beating dragons
‘Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.’ – Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman on beating dragons
‘Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.’ – Neil Gaiman
1001 Children's Books 