Gurusum Weekly

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”  ―  Lemony Snicket

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”  ―  Jane Smiley

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”  ―  Mark Twain

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”  ―  Anne Lamott

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”  ―  Oscar Wilde

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”  ―  Lemony Snicket

“Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read  2. The right to skip pages  3. The right to not finish  4. The right to reread  5. The right to read anything  6. The right to escapism  7. The right to read anywhere  8. The right to browse  9. The right to read out loud  10. The right to not defend your tastes”  ―  Daniel Pennac

“A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”  ―  Stephen King

“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”  ―  Arnold Lobel

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”  ―  Tahereh Mafi

“Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.”  ―  George R.R. Martin

“[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... ”  ―  Neil Gaiman

“Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”  ―  John Green

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”  ―  Malcolm X

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”  ―  John Berger

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”  ―  Hilary Mantel

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”  ―  Lemony Snicket

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”  ―  Jasper Fforde

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”  ―  Jasper Fforde

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” ― Jules Verne