Kathy Acker Quotes

I love the mystery behind things.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Secrets interest us all, I think.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

he's a story i want to know from page one

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.