“This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.” KnowsBookTurnsExistenceMorningReaderPagesShelves Book:A Reading Diary Source: A Reading Diary
“A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.” BookUseHomeLawWorryModernReaderEmptyHave FaithVolumeDepressingShelvesLibrarianStay At Home Author:S. R. Ranganathan
“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.” ThinkingWantLittlesFactsProblemLyingFallEasyBitsNaturalLinesDarkAudienceProductsHairReaderLittle BitHumorousBrandsConsumersPerceiveIronyBottlesInherentShelvesNo ProblemWant UShampooSubtextBeauty Products Author:Aaron Belz
“Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.” GrowsViewsClearPoetReaderWalkingMountainLimitsEssentialsTeaCollectionsShelvesIndispensableMoonlightHerbsBedrockGraniteThermos Author:Jane Hirshfield
“The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.” ThinkingBookSometimesWould BeReadingMistakeBrainSkyDangerousReaderPaperOrdinaryLibraryTricksPrivacyShelvesInkPrintedMundaneCommonplaceFireworksChained Book:Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16) Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)
“It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.” ImportantEndsFactsReaderPagesHundredBoundsValuableNineShelves Author:Joshua Mohr