A Burnable Book Quotes

“You must convince your readers that your characters are flesh and blood rather than words on dead skin, that their loves and hatreds and passions are as deep and present as the readers' own. Your task is to delight, to pleasure, to lift your reader to another sphere of being and then strand him there, floating above the earth and panting for more lines.”
― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book

“Love can be sustaining even in the worst of circumstances. Bare life, though, can be passing hard to endure”
― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book

“We live in an immense world, whole universes of taste and touch and scent, of voices commingling in the light, and dying away with the common dread that stands at every man’s door. Yet we perceive and remember this world only as it creates those single fragments of experience: moments of everyday kindness, or self-sacrificing love, or unthinkable brutality. I”
― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book

“When the light fails and belief fades into nothingness, and the season of your darkest ignorance begins.”
― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book

“Go, little book, to our unfathomed friend, Above his silvered head to build a shrine, Retreat of Wisdom, Ignorance to mend. Full oft there shall you comfort and entwine His long limbs in bookish fetters benign. Thou shalt preserve those aquamarine gems, Or Gower’s friend shall cast you in the Thames.”
― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book

“No dearness of price ought to hinder a man from the buying of books,” Angervyle wrote, “if he has the money that is demanded for them.”
― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book