Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mista...
I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.
Because What we Learn from our Favorite Books, you see in our daily Lives.---JennAnijah Publishing
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and...
Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.
Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.
Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.
The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other everyday, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real...
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-
Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of...
Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the S...
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.
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