“Do I like being alone so much? Yes—sometimes! Nonsense! I like it very well. So delightful to shut one’s eyes and recite aloud without fear of being overheard, or dream golden dreams without the dread of being disturbed; or better still, write page after page with none to cry “Put down that pen before you kill yourself” or read some favorite author as long as one chooses, without having the extinguisher placed over the candle as a night cap.”
Source: Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
“My idea of happiness is a rainy evening with a comfortable book to read.”
Source: Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
“The biggest mistake you can make as an author is to think while writing “What does the reader wants to hear”? Because unique worlds & characters are build inside an individual mind. And also your readers do not know what they want to read until they read it.”
“If you understood everything in the mind of an author then reading his books would be no fun at all.”
Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 02
“Books were to her what faith was to Martha; she never felt closer to the Father than she did in those moments under the shadow of the book tent, reading the stories of a stranger she'd never met.”
Source: The Year of the Witching
“Brandon said. “I guess I like boy books.” What does that even mean? Candice wanted to ask. Books about guns and war? Books that only contain boys?”
Source: The Parker Inheritance
“Receive what this great cornucopia has offered,
Behold a useful and profitable book. If you think otherwise,
Do not lay the blame on the book, but on yourself.”
Source: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
“I don't exactly know what's happened to you, but I know that sometimes you can't change other people, you can only change how you respond to them, and that has to be enough.”
Source: The Comeback
“Bookworms love to say, there is no friend as loyal as a book. I say, if your knowledge of all those books doesn’t come to any use of the people around you, then there’s no creature as selfish as you.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“If someone is not ready to commit to you, then you are committing a mistake by loving them.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote