“ Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. ”
Carol Shields (via fleurishes)
(via Leaving the Atocha Station: Ben Lerner: 9781566892742: Amazon.com: Books)
Even though the reviews haven’t been so great, I might just have to read this.
“ In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked. ”
Morris L. West
“ Where the romance novels of Sandra Brown and Danielle Steel once enlivened the evenings of homemakers with stories of torrid encounters and impossible desire, and chick lit confirmed the me-first ethos of the first generation of fully empowered female professionals, maybe today’s twenty- or thirty-something reader is looking for the opposite: a reprieve from romantic and sexual freedom. ”
5,084,000,000 people. 5,360 pages. 3,700 years. 243 countries. 7 books. 1 shelf.
For the first time, the world’s most influential religious texts are brought together and presented on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.
by Mike & Maaike.
“ People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you’re better than them, and they get resentful. ”
Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul (via bookmania)
Oh calm your pants down. Is a tumblr’s theme irrelevant because it’s a blog rather than a magazine?Associate art director at Alfred A. Knopff discusses. Will books lose the “comfort of thingy-ness?” Can somebody please use that as a book title?
