Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Books Quotes
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Giving a child a book is an implicit act of faith in the child. When you give a kid a book, you’re saying that you believe they have the means within them to understand it, even if at that moment they haven’t yet learned the skill. Kids know this, you know, even if they don’t […]
What you don’t know would make a great book.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one’s mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which some cases can even survive a […]
Tough choices face the biblioholic at every step of the way – like choosing between reading and eating, between buying new clothes and buying books, between a reasonable lifestyle and one of penurious but masochistic happiness lived out in the wallow of excess.
The book fascinated him (Winston Smith), or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of […]
The drift of literary fiction is largely shown by the department store. The reader has gone slumming.
