A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a…
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?
Reader’s Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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