Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Book, Heart, Beats

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books

• Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Book, Intimate, Reader

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.40, Granta Books

• You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.94, Canongate Books

• The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Real, Book, Home

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, June 2013.

• Books are solitudes in which we meet.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Book, Solitude

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.36, Granta Books

• Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Growing Up, Book, Native American

  Source: therumpus.net

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