A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence,...
A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.
Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.
Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to re...
A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.
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