Real Books Quotes

“Real books, unlike schoolbooks, can’t be standardized. They are eccentric; no book fits everyone.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks, and we never again experience the little rush of opening a new book and cracking the spine and smelling the print and diving deep into the thoughts of the writer.”
― Suzanne Somers

“Do not be a soft, helpless victim in this world. Be sharp. Be dangerous. Do not become a slick, polished version of a human being. Keep your rough edges. Read real books. Books that hurt to read. Listen to music that makes you want to tear your chest open and show the world your beating heart.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“How did you get into poetry?

Look, I’d love to give you some romantic, tortured-artist bullshit about the hot muse visiting me in the dead of night, or a profound calling from the literary gods.

But I’m not gonna lie to you.

I just woke up one day, realized I possessed a crippling inability to hold down a respectable job, and figured... and I figured I had a hell of a lot to whine about.

So Writing was just a cheaper alternative to therapy, and it gave me an excuse to piss on the absurd, beautiful tragedy of the human condition …”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”