#books

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#dinner #eat #food #great-american-novel #silence

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food. ↗

— Emlyn Chand

#birds #children #children-s-books #emlyn-chand #evolved-publishing

life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#literature #scarlett-o-hara #forgiveness

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer. ↗

— James Ellroy

#books #cops #every #exception #killer

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#romantic

i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#freedom #reading #freedom

My books are friends that never fail me." (Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817) ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#friends #friendship #reliance #trust #friendship

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#art

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt. ↗

— Karen Miller

#funny #humor #funny

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#ending #funny-quotes #the-end #writing #funny