– Alan Dean Foster (via balphesian)
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"The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."
What Homophobes Are Afraid Of: Apart from being one of the funniest people in the world, Ellen DeGeneres is a champion for gay rights. She wonders why people are afraid of being influenced towards homosexuality when clearly homosexual people aren’t influenced into heterosexuality. Ya don’t make any damn sense, homophobes. Image courtesy of LGBT News.
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"Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you’re working. Tell them it’s research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone."
– Jennifer Weiner (via amandaonwriting)
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"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose."
"I think libraries are more vital now than they have ever been. And whatever form books take in the centuries and millennia to come, we will always need librarians."
"I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader."
– Julian Barnes (via prettybooks)
(Source: Guardian, via prettybooks)
"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
– Charlaine Harris (via kari-shma)
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"By now, I probably preferred secondhand books to new ones. In America such items were disparagingly referred to as “previously owned”; but this very continuity of ownership was part of their charm. A book dispensed its explanation of the world to one person, then another, and so on down the generations; different hands held the same book and drew sometimes the same, sometimes a different wisdom from it."
– Julian Barnes (via prettybooks)
(Source: Guardian, via prettybooks)
"We love books for what they carry within them, not for what they’re made of."
– Rebecca Joines Schinsky (via prettybooks)
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"Children have always read books written for adults, even while their own body of literature has grown. Why even have a separate juvenile literature if children are exposed to the adult world daily? Because children can and do benefit from a literature that meets their interests and the context of their lives. What they do not benefit from is literature that is “dumbed down” on the assumption that they cannot handle complexities."
– Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age (1999) by Eliza Dresang (via presentingbooks)
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"His father was always urging him to go outside, to do something physical, always perplexed by the solemn stacks of books he brought home. But books gave him documentation, proof of other places, other times, that had nothing to do with this one."
– Zachary Lazar, Sway (via prettybooks)
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"The problem with influences is that the thing or person you say is an influence has to accept some of the blame for what you’ve done."
– Jasper Johns (via gabrielle-gantz)
