“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
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Source: Wall and Piece
“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!”
The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
Context: These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing; and just as the touch of button on our stereo will fill the room with music, so by opening one of these volumes, one can call into range a voice far distant in time and space, and hear it speaking, mind to mind, heart to heart.
“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
“Gravity’s books have got to balance.”
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 17, “Disaster” (p. 177)
“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.
McKeon, Belinda. Metaphysics gets a Mayo accent http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/metaphysics-gets-a-mayo-accent-1.441635, The Irish Times (13 May 2005)
“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
Source: Summertime