Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under...
Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking book...
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
Literature is my Utopia
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.", American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]
Relationship are easy when times are good, BUT THE TRUE TEST IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN ( ONE IS BLIND AND OTHER IS VICTIM OF SILENCE ) AND TIMES ARE TOUGH.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.
Still. Four words.And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog:Dear Neil,If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the...
I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote , and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dicti...
An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...