A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit...
Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in...
Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den eine...
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime...
In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the mu...
Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.
Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.
It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.
Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced it herself more than once among the library'...
The gift of a good story is as infinite as the stars.
I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others