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“...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be 'true in a way'.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of our profession. Every day, librarians must decide between a desire to preserve the privacy of our community members and offering services our communities demand. Every day, librarians must make a choice between doing what’s easy, doing what’s right, and determining what’s right in the first place. No textbook or mission statement or policy document can relieve us of the necessity to make those decisions, nor remove the complexity of those decisions. That’s why we are librarians and why librarians are professionals, not clerks. That’s why we are stewards within the communities we serve, not servants to them. That’s why we must shape the missions and the work of our organizations and communities, and not simply accept them.”
― R. David Lankes, The New Librarianship Field Guide

“Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“How good it is to be among reading people. Why are they not always like that? You can go up to one of them and touch him lightly; he feels nothing. And if in rising, you chance to bump lightly against a neighbor and excuse yourself, he nods toward the side from which he hears your voice, his face turns toward you and does not see you, and his hair is like that of a man asleep. How comforting that is.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880

“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”
― Terri Costola

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support social and political change, including the redistribution of power. Perhaps nonfiction & the arts--literature, poetry & film--are potentially much better suited to the work of politically engaging audiences than the staid tools of the academy.”
― Erica R. Meiners, For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

“Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens”
― shilpi, Hangover

“There is nothing more amazing than being with the one you love.”
― Shilpi, Hangover

“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the number of times they’ve lost interest in a book after a couple of chapters, or only “toughed it out�� to the end out of a sense of obligation? I’d say it’s because too many writers have forgotten that the writer’s job isn’t merely to express himself, it’s to reach a reader. That doesn’t mean pandering to the lowest common denominator. But it does mean that even a work of smart, thoughtful fiction should strive to engage and entertain. If you’re a writer of literary fiction and all you’re bringing to the party is a poetic turn of phrase or a deep thought, that’s not enough. What about pace? Humour? Characters you care about and a smattering of suspense that makes you want to “find out what happens next?�� All of these, plus rich language, bracing honesty and emotional resonance, should be components of the best, most thoughtful fiction. Because that’s the sort of reading experience that readers should be able to expect from a novel that demands hours of their time.”
― Trevor Cole

“You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which book you should be reading until you read many others that you shouldn’t.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, Friend of My Youth

“Rayden Strong”
― Stephen Zimmer, Thunder Horizon

“There is only one happiness in life. To love, and to be loved”
― Shilpi, Hangover

“I don't have a favorite book. I have hundreds.”
― John Green

“Authors and readers have a symbiotic relationship. An author builds roads of thoughts, imaginations, and ideas. Readers walk those roads to find the beauties of life.”
― Debasish Mridha

“I judge the quality of my work by the quality of the people that follow it. If my readers are the most amazing people on Earth, I am surely doing a very good job and I have all the right to be proud about it.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one else can enter.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The greatest skill that an author could possess, she thought, was the ability to make a reader see a book as his or her child, someone only the reader in question could truly appreciate, love, and protect.”
― Rakesh Satyal, No One Can Pronounce My Name

“Je ne pourrai jamais lire tous ces livres. Si une autre personne les acquiert, au moins, ils sont appréciés. Et puis, on a toujours envie de diffuser les livres qu’on aime.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“Il y a toujours un lecteur pour chaque livre. Et un livre pour chaque lecteur.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels than men do, perhaps because this kind of ambiguous floating and flirtation is just what a self-protective masculinity needs to keep away from.”
― Anita Phillips, A Defence of Masochism

“Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc. because a beggar has nothing to lose but if a king loses everything suddenly and gets poor, then the readers or audience become so sad and feel like crying in the end!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque