#books

I don't take advances for my books. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#books #i #take

They're book addicts. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #reading #humor

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#friendship #age

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#art

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ↗

— Stephen King

#censorship #challenged-books #freedom-of-speech #freedom

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#temptation

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#experiences-and-adventures #how-we-become-us #who-we-are #change

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#reading #writing-books

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#bookshelf #century #delivered #middle #paper

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. ↗

— Alan Davies

#buy #four #friend #great #hundred