Ghost Reader

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”
― Thomas Bernhard

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”
― Philip Roth