Winter Library Sayings

#1. There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

Alexander Dale Oen

#2. How did writing come to me? Like bird's down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

Rene Char

#3. I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel."19

S.C. Gwynne

#4. We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

Desire-Joseph Mercier

#5. Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Philip Kerr

#6. We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.

Mordecai Richler

#7. The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

William Shakespeare

#8. [Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?

Simone Elkeles

#9. Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

Jeanette Winter