Words of Others

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”

– Ray Bradbury

“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

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.”

– Mark Twain

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”

– Larry L. King

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”

– Paul Sweeney

“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”

– David Quammen