"Write the truest sentence that you know." That simple advice guided Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) throughout his life. A reporter, soldier, traveler, Nobel Prize winner, and master storyteller, he transformed real-life adventure into timeless literature. ⏰📚💙 #books #Hemingway

Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 — August 9, 1962) worked in bookshops before becoming famous. During his bookshop years, he educated himself by reading literature and philosophy. One central theme of his books is the search for the true self. ⏰📚💙 #books #writers #literature #HermannHesse #Hesse

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France, on June 29, 1900. The Little Prince was written and illustrated by him during exile in the United States and first published there in 1943; today it is one of the most translated works of fiction in the world. ⏰📚💙 #books #writers #literature

Claude Monet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Renoir and Monet studied painting together at the atelier of Charles Gler in Paris. Renoir submitted this painting to the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874 ⏰📚💙 #reading #book #art #painting

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that – I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much – so very much to learn.” Sylvia Plath, #author of The Bell Jar ⏰📚💙 #books #writers #quotes #literature

Orwell once explained his mission very simply: he wrote because there was “some lie” he wanted to expose and “some fact” he wanted people to see. Happy Birthday George Orwell! ⏰📚💙 #reading #GeorgeOrwell #books #Orwell #writers #literature #book #readingcommunity #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish

Don Quixote is often cited as the first modern #novel - a book about a man who reads so much he starts living inside stories. ⏰📚💙 #reading #DonQuixote #books #Quixote #writers #literature #book #readingcommunity #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish

"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you." Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970) ⏰📚💙 #reading #Remarque #books #quotes #today #onthisday #writers #literature #book #readingcommunity #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish

Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature. #Sartre believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices. ⏰📚💙 #reading #books #writers #existentialism

Reading a Storybook by James Tissot (1878-79) ⏰📚💙 #reading #books #art #painting

Louis Braille invented the tactile #reading and #writing system for #blind people when he was just 15 years old. #Braille #LouisBraille

⏰📚💙 #Catullus #poem #poetry

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896) was a preacher’s daughter, a teacher, a wife, and a mother of seven. In 1852, her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a sensation: about 10,000 copies were sold in the first week, and 300,000 before the end of the year. ⏰📚💙🖋️📚⏳ #books #writers #today

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s timeless masterpiece, has reached a historic milestone by becoming the world’s most translated book of fiction, with 600 translations to date! ⏰📚💙 #reading #TheLittlePrince #Exupery #books #literature #translations #novel

Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 – February 1945) for her thirteenth birthday received a diary. She began to write about her life, the people around her. She dreamed of becoming a #writer War left us only her #diary It stole the girl, the #books she never wrote, and the life she should have had. ⏰📚💙🖋️📚⏳

"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down" John Keats by Joseph Severn (1821) 👇

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being ⏰📚💙 #reading #Kundera #books

Reading a book as an intimate and lonely act. ⏰📚💙 #reading #books #art #painting

Today is Thomas Mann’s birthday. His novel Doctor Faustus feels strikingly modern: it is not just a novel about the past. It is a warning. Mann shows how a gifted person — and even an entire country — can be seduced by evil and lose their soul. ⏰📚💙 #ThomasMann #books #DoctorFaustus #reading

Today is the birthday of the Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814): a gifted #writer and a monster. His name became a word for taking pleasure in another person’s suffering: #sadism. In his #books we see how intellect, power, and desire can become a philosophy of #violence. ⏰📚💙🌶️📚🖋️

Have you ever listened to audiobooks? Audiobook Appreciation Month takes place every June, celebrating the accessibility, educational value, and storytelling magic of listening to books. Established by the Audio Publishers Association in 1998. ⏰📚💙🪐📚🌶️💡📚🎧🩸📚🖋️⏳📚⚡️ #audiobooks #listening #books #June

Don Quixote in the Study by Gustave Doré (1862) The scene where Don Quixote, a ‘book madman’, falls into a knight saga and loses his sense of reality. It is humorous yet fantastically portrayed. ⏰📚💙🖋️📚 #DonQuixote #books #literature #reading #painting #art #illustration #GustaveDore

Shel Silverstein is famous for his children’s poetry and illustrations. In poem Lazy Jane the word "rain" hovers just above Jane’s open mouth, as the string of words above it seems to represent the trickle of water she longs for. ⏰📚💙 #poetry #reading #poem #poet #Silverstein #graficpoem #Lazy

Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned. ⏰📚💙🖋️ 📚 ⚡️ #IanFleming #JamesBond #books #reading #writers #author #readers #today

Today is Dracula Day. Some monsters never die 🧛‍♀️ Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares. ⏰📚💙🎧📚🩸🖋️📚 #DraculaDay #Dracula #BramStoker #Stoker #books #horor #vampire #literature #reading #today #onthisday

Don't Panic! Remember, you are safe in this Galaxy, as long as you know exactly where your towel is. Happy Towel Day! ⏰📚💙🪐📚🎧 #TowelDay #onthisday #HitchhikersGuide #novel #DouglasAdams #scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature #today #Towel #Galaxy #dontpanic #reading #fiction #readers

Finished Atomic Habits. A very practical book for anyone who wants to change something in their life or move closer to a goal. The ideas are simple, clear, and easy to apply. Some of them I was already using intuitively, but a few insights felt genuinely fresh. ⏰📚💙💡📚 #JamesClear #AtomicHabits #book

In The Defense, #Nabokov ’s language is, as always, rich, sharp, and full of vivid imagery and wordplay. The characters, however, feel strangely soulless and do not inspire sympathy. It even seems that the author treats them with a kind of superiority bordering on contempt. ⏰📚💙 #books #reading

May 22 is International Sherlock Holmes Day - the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a real physician who could read a patient’s diagnosis, profession, habits, and character from tiny details: a walk, an accent, worn sleeves, mud on shoes. ⏰📚💙 #writers #books

Happy International Tea Day! It's always tea time. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland ⏰📚💙 #teaday #today #onthisday #LewisCarroll #tea #Carroll #Wonderland