Books in the streets!

“It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read.” –Judy Blume

Joyous Discoveries: A Journey Through Books and Music

In San Francisco by Keith Hollander | Source: ebookfriendly.com

Books in the streets!

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” –Marcel Proust

In Philadelphia by Donald Gensler | Source: ebookfriendly.com

Books in the streets!

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw

In Brooklyn by Nelson Rivas (Cekis) | Source: ebookfriendly.com

Books in the streets!

“I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.” –William Lyon Phelps

Street art - Reading While Growing Roots

In Buenos Aires by Loto | Source: buenosairesstreetart.com

Books in the streets!

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” –Abraham Lincoln

In Lisbon by Natália Correia | Source: ebookfriendly.com

Books in the streets!

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” –Oscar Wilde

In Gloucester | Source: ebookfriendly.com

Books in the streets!

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” –W. Somerset Maugham

In Buenos Aires by Patxi Mazzoni Alonso | Source: buenosairesstreetart.com

TCB meets Isabel Allende

We go to great lengths to interest you in reading, to inspire you to read again and to encourage you to read more. That even means contacting much-loved writers! Isabel Allende, in between a busy schedule, generously took the time to answer a few questions for us.

Books in the streets!

“In a good book the best is between the lines.” –Swedish Proverb

In Chicago | Source: pawnworkschicago.com

Books in the streets!

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

In Pittsburgh by Carolyn Speranza | Source: Flickr

“It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read.” –Judy Blume

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