“In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.”
Source: Out of Africa
“Look,' he says, 'have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can't actually start it?'
'Oh totally. All the time - if I had a grain of self-restraint I never would've been able to read the last Harry Potter book. The anticipation was painful. You know like what if it does live up to the last ones? What if it's not what I hope it'll be?”
Source: The Flatshare
“No book is dangerous in and of itself, you know. But historically, reading a book in the wrong way has led to terrible consequences.”
Source: Meddling Kids
“After all, a town without a bookshop was a town without a heart.”
Source: How to Find Love in a Bookshop
“Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.”
Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
“Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.”
Source: The Forbidden Library
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
“Life was not meant to be easy, but you can change the trajectory when you become a visionary and strive for victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Biblioteki są zapisami naszych czytelniczych porażek.
Jak mało w nich książek, które naprawdę nam się podobały. Jeszcze mniej takich, które podobają się nam przy kolejnej lekturze. Większość to pamiątki po ludziach, którymi chcieliśmy być. Których udawaliśmy. Których braliśmy za siebie.”
Source: Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem
“Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.”
Source: My Life on the Road