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 […]
Books Quotes
The drift of literary fiction is largely shown by the department store. The reader has gone slumming.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
When a new book is published, read an old one.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
The book you don’t read can’t help.
Books allowed my imagination to take flight – and it hasn’t landed yet.
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
The two biggest sellers in any book store are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.
