April 2012
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”
—John Gardner (via martinaboone)
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
—David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there’s a lot of difference.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via inauspicious stars)
“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them”
—Annie Dillard (via readreread)
“Writing novels…you gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn’t make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.”
—Haruki Murakami (via martinaboone)
