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

-Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, Lemony Snicket

“There are no ski lifts in the world of creativity. You gotta haul your own ass up the slope every time you want to come back down it. It’s not so bad, the more you climb up, the stronger you get, and the higher you can go, which makes for better runs.”

-Fred Gallagher

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”

-Joseph Pulitzer

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”

-Jessamyn West

“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
–Ernest Hemingway.

Today, in place of a book quote, I give you the words of Sarah Silverman.

"Dear America, 
When you tell gay Americans that they can’t serve their country openly, or marry the person that they love, you’re telling that to kids, too. So don’t be fucking shocked, and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids, and driving them to kill themselves because they’re different. They learned it from watching you."

“I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church—was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I also stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” –To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."

-Sylvia Plath

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em."

-John Waters