In Other Words 9/2/11

In Other Words, one of our favorite memes here at Reading Lark, has moved to Fridays. Each Friday we bring you a collection of literary quotes selected by our awesome blog team centered around a different theme or topic. Enjoy - and feel free to share YOUR favorite quote about this week's theme in our comments section! 

This week's theme ~ 

The Power of Books and Reading

Tevya:
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." — Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life) 


 "A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty." — Andrew Wolfe "So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall." — Roald Dahl 



 Andrea:
"If you take a book with you on a journey,...an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."
 — Cornelia Funke (Inkheart (Inkheart, #1))


 "I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating." 
 — Libba Bray 



Meagen:
"We read to know we are not alone". 
-C.S. Lewis 


Paula:
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." 
~Edward P. Morgan 


Julie: 
"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head." 
-Tim O'Brien 


" Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth." 
-Tim O'Brien 
 (I ♥ his quotes on the power of storytelling/books!!)