A closed book is beautiful, because anything can be written in it, and so everything is.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Yume no Hon
Tag: books
What makes lovemaking and reading
resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
— Italo Calvin, If on a winter’s night a traveler
Books should be like magical jewelled boxes.
It’s the writer’s job to tell the story. My job is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.
– Thomas Canty, fantasy illustrator
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
– John Keats, letters
…we here, as you are bound to have noticed,
serve food twice and pour wine twice. Never once and never three times. A book, if you expect wonders from it, should also be read twice. It should be read once in youth, when you are younger than its heroes, and the second time when you are advanced in age and the book’s heroes become younger than yourself. That way you will see them from both sides of their years, and they will be able to put you to the test on the other side of the clock, where time stands still. This means that sometimes it is forever too late to read some books, just as sometimes it is forever too late to go to bed…”
– Landscape Painted With Tea, Book One
Milorad Pavic
The Floating Exhibition
