okay so there are some incredibly genius people in the world and some of them get famous and they get their words framed on walls and repeated over and over and over and usually that happens for a reason (that reason being that those words are kind of perfect descriptions of something or they have some deep metaphorical meaning or something along those lines) and a lot of those quotes are about reading because reading has existed for a very long time and so people talk about it a lot and generally it is socially acceptable for famous people to say good things about books and a lot of the time those words about are said by people who write books too and anyway enough rambling (im not even 100% sure that what im writing makes sense because im listening to music (if anyone cares its The Best Day by Taylor Swift) while iim writing this so please excuse any errors, grammatical or otherwise.
so anyway this is a list of just a few amazingly geniusly accurate or beautiful quotes said by famous people
*side note* im like 3896% sure that there are other equally genius things said by not famous people that no one knows because said person is not famous and that is tragic but theres nothing we can do about it so oh well.
anyway back to the list.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
(yes this is the one in my side bar too)
“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?”
― Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland
“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”
― Helen Humphreys, Coventry
“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow...”
― Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book…… And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
–Vera Nazarian
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
–G.K. Chesterton
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
–Salman Rushdie
In a good book the best is between the lines.
–Swedish Proverb
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
–Edward P. Morgan
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
–Ernest Hemingway
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
–Jeremy Collier
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
–Henry Ward Beecher
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
–Amos Bronson Alcott
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
–William Styron
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
–Joseph Brodsky
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
–Paul Sweeney
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
– Marcel Proust
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
–C.S. Lewis
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
–Jeremy Collier
It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
–Judy Blume
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
–Toni Morrison
(COUGH FANFICTION COUGH COUGH)
A good book has no ending.
–R.D. Cumming
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work magic.
- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
and a personal favorite:
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
–Oscar Wilde
and since i want a picture and also because i love disney and also because belle is the best princess ever:
^accurate. see belle understands us fangirls.
so anyway this is a list of just a few amazingly geniusly accurate or beautiful quotes said by famous people
*side note* im like 3896% sure that there are other equally genius things said by not famous people that no one knows because said person is not famous and that is tragic but theres nothing we can do about it so oh well.
anyway back to the list.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
(yes this is the one in my side bar too)
“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?”
― Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland
“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”
― Helen Humphreys, Coventry
“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow...”
― Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book…… And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
–Vera Nazarian
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
–G.K. Chesterton
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
–Salman Rushdie
In a good book the best is between the lines.
–Swedish Proverb
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
–Edward P. Morgan
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
–Ernest Hemingway
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
–Jeremy Collier
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
–Henry Ward Beecher
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
–Amos Bronson Alcott
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
–William Styron
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
–Joseph Brodsky
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
–Paul Sweeney
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
– Marcel Proust
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
–C.S. Lewis
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
–Jeremy Collier
It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
–Judy Blume
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
–Toni Morrison
(COUGH FANFICTION COUGH COUGH)
A good book has no ending.
–R.D. Cumming
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work magic.
- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
and a personal favorite:
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
–Oscar Wilde
and since i want a picture and also because i love disney and also because belle is the best princess ever:
^accurate. see belle understands us fangirls.
the frank zappa one's my favorite!!
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