just right, bookstore light
Awesome pic, @melanieamac. Thanks for sharing! (at Powell's Books on Hawthorne)
“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.” — John Irving, The World According to Garp
We love that winter light on the shelves. Great capture, @flaxenblue!
“I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.” — Patti Smith
powells reblogged
Powell’s Books.
Portland, Oregon. June 2011
Great shot of great literature. Thanks for sharing, @marianna_ble.
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” — Nora Ephron
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ― Fran Lebowitz
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” ― Jane Smiley
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.” - Ernest Hemingway
“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” — Gary Paulsen
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” — James Baldwin
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” — Madeleine L’Engle