"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."

Dorothy Parker; The Collected Dorothy Parker (via wordpainting)

"I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die."

Patrick Rothfuss (via wordpainting)

"

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven’t Read
- Books You Needn’t Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read
- Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”

"

Italo Calvino; If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (via wordpainting)

letstalkfantasybooks:

People think I’m kidding when I say I’m going to have a library in my house when I’m older

and I’m like no

you don’t understand

have to

There is no other way to fit everything

"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."

Ernest Hemingway 
(via seabois)

radionuclide:

pwnedepicfail:

that awesome moment when you finished reading a really good book and you see it at a store then you cunningly smile at it as if you had an affair with it.

#then you hover around it for a while #maybe stroke it #read the blurb

problemsofabooknerd:

Submitted by Hannah H.
This drives me crazy. The covers of the Maximum Ride books. So much anger.  

problemsofabooknerd:

Submitted by Hannah H.

This drives me crazy. The covers of the Maximum Ride books. So much anger.  

the-green-hand:

Any fool can kill. It’s easy—as easy as throwing a book on the fire, breaking down a door, or frightening a child.”
-Dustfinger, Inkheart by: Cornelia Funke


"If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different."

"Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature” because the standard for existence set by white men has yet to be rescinded in this age. “Normal” history is the history of a certain class of white people, from the perspective of men. All the other histories are precisely that: Other."

Cunt:  A Declaration of Independence. (via tenementhalls)