Posts tagged book quotes
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
(Source: dallowaycat, via englishmajorhumor)
You don’t have anything
if you don’t have the stories.
“…Time yet for a hundred indecisions, and a hundred visions and revisions…”
Excerpt from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.
Done by Jay at Lark Tattoo in Westbury, NY.
(via englishmajormade)
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing… I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
Alice in Wonderland by herecomesthesunblog on Flickr.
(via booksandhotchocolate)
That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.
(Source: booklover, via the-masked-writer)
