Quotes About Books - Tumblr Posts
"Stories can cross the barriers of time, past, present and future, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and through others, real and imagined."
— Andrew Stanton, PIXAR screenwriter, from his TED talk: The Clues to a Great Story
Leo Tolstoy sure does know what happiness is!
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“A good book will give you answers to questions you didn’t know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.”
— Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis
Yes, why can't life be just as simple as this?
“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
— The Camel Club by David Baldacci
"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."
– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing
From Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Alberto Manguel, Canadian translator and essayist