![]() ![]() My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Joe Ryanīooks let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. ~George Robert GissingĪ book is like a garden carried in the pocket. I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~Mark Twain, attributedĪ book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. EliotĪlways read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991īooks are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ![]() If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 ~Author UnknownĪ good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. ~James BryceĪnyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Author UnknownĪ book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. Upon there my affection and cherishing are lockedĪ good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. The feeling of reading you is like feeling the spring ![]() The feeling of reading you is like feeling the time of March Even though I have been reading you thousand times, I am not feeling weary at all ![]()
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