A Quote from Philip Pullman

Although I have never read Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy considered a great work of young adult literature, I recently read this quote and wanted to share it.

"The meaning of the book is never just what the author thinks it is. The meaning is only what emerges when the book and the reader meet."

All the books we own. . .

“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.” ― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

Books & Travel

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

An Interesting Quote

David Tennant regards ‘Yorick’ in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet

"Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are far more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls!" (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer)

BOOKS? FOR CHRISTMAS?

Holidays are for curling up with a book

"I have sought rest everywhere, and have found it nowhere, save in a little corner, with a little book."
-- Thomas à Kempis

Another Quote from Sing Them Home

"The more restricted one's view, the more one is compelled to give meaning to what is available. It's how we rise to the challenge. We elevate the mundane. We sanctify the ordinary."

Sing Them Home (2008)

I am just barely into Stephanie Kallos' latest title, Sing Them Home, and already I had to write down a quote to remember.

". . . the most reliable place to find someone who is not here but surely somewhere is in the realm of memory."

Importance of Reading Fiction

lifehack.org had the following article on the benefits of reading fiction called How to Fuel Your Idea Machine that I thought was interesting so I am passing it along (click on the link) including this quote from Henry David Thoreau:

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."