Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
Never read a book that is not a year old.
There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.
A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not...
You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.
You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters...
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanatio...
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you...
Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
Instead, I read books in the library, huddling on a bean bag in a corner and getting lost in somebody else's victories and troubles. I never had much time for fiction before. I preferred real life. Ma...
Never judge a book by its "spine".
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.
Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural course. Like a river, print flowed to its readers, and the cheapness of...
I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream.
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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