February 2012
42 posts
“Let a moron be a moron, let drama be drama, but you, walk away knowing you’re...”
– Michelle Yox (via myquotelibrary)
“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not...”
– Brandon Mull (via myquotelibrary)
“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human...”
– Susan Sontag (via teachingliteracy)
“Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn’t something you do...”
– (via neil-gaiman)
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who...”
– Frank Serafini (via booksandnerds)
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self...”
– Nick Hornby (The Polysyllabic Spree)
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Nora Ephron (via teachingliteracy)
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
– B.F. Skinner, From R. Evans, B.F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas [1968] (via quotestheywrote)
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via myreadingchallenge2012)
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its...”
– Enrique Jardiel Poncela (via justbethbrown)
“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our...”
– Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (via excessivebookshelf)
“I have so much to tell you, the problem isn’t that I’m running out of time, I’m...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via endlessnocturnes)
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at...”
– Richard Wright (via presentingbooks)
vintageanchor:
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a...
“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the...”
– Salma Hayek (via quelola)
“Each reader is a world: no two personal libraries are identical.”
– Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books (via distantheartbeats)
“My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar...”
– Neil Gaiman (via booksandnerds)
It’s like he knows my life.
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of...”
– Sherman Alexie (via teachingliteracy)
WRITERS THAT MATTER: OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
martynpepperell:
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”
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“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept...”
– Jodi Picoult (via misswallflower)
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost...”
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (via acoustic-funeral)
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and...”
– Vintage Books & Anchor Books
“Basic women’s health care shouldn’t be subject to politics or at the mercy of...”
– Great points in an article from Feministing about the current issues in the US. (via amckiereads)
For as long as I live, I will never stop...
There is no greater pleasure in life than...
“We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are...”
– F. Sionil José, In Search of the Word: Selected Essays (via teachingliteracy)
January 2012
49 posts
“I think that what we need to do is say reading is going to really affect your...”
– Walter Dean Myers
All men need to be reading to their children. Find the time. Find any time. Your children need words, and they need them from you. They need to hear and see you use words. They need to hear and see you read.
They’ll learn from you, if you read to them or not. And that’s exactly...
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“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t...”
– ― Marilyn Monroe (via iammovingtoparis)
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body...”
– Louisa May Alcott (Rose In Bloom)
“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it’s nice to have...”
– Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty (via misssierralyn)
