Everyday US libraries circulate nearly 4 times more items than amazon handles. (infoworld.com)Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. (Philip Pullman)
Good children's literature appeals ot only to the child in the adult, but ot the adult in the child. (anonymous)
42% of college graduates never read another book after college. (www.jenkinsgroupinc.com)
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Shakespeare Insult Kit http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody is not thinking. (George Patton)
Patterson Page Turner Awards http://www.pattersonpageturner.org/
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island. (Walt Disney)
...books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.." (Inkheart by Cornelia Funke)
Midnight dreary .. geek version of The Raven http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/midnight.dreary.html
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. (Emily Dickinson)
A catalog is where cats come from. It's a big book full of pictures of hundreds and hundreds of cats. And when you open it up, all the cats jump out and start running around. (Ann Cameron, said by Julian, "Catalog Cats" from The Stories Julian Tells)
I like good strong words that mean something. (Jo in Little Women, Louisa May Alcott)
Words do wonderful things. They sound purr. they can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. they can churn, check, channelize. They can be a hup 2,3,4. (Gwendolyn Brooks)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling)
Writing is like anything--baseball, playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work at it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at hammering nails. (Betsy Byars)
A writer needs three things: experience, observation and imagination. (William Faulkner)
There ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it, and ain't agoing to no more. (Last paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain.)
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck)
You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (John ciardi)
A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge. (Friedrich Durrenmatt)
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. (Willa Cather)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. (Jack London)
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. (C.J. Cherryh)
Eighty percent of success is showing up. (Woody Allen)
Modern SF is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. (Isaac Asimov)
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. (Ralph Gerard)
I have always come to life after coming to books. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I suspect that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. (E.M. Forster)
How many a man have dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book? (Thoreau)
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. (Lord Byron)
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time it to meet an old one. (Chinese saying)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. (John F. Kennedy)
Collected by Patti Tjomsland,
Library Media Specialist
and BER Consultant