I discovered its worth (super-slow reading) years ago, in the infamous Changi prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore. I was 19, an artillery sergeant, when the city fell to the Japanese on February 15, 1942. Waiting with other Australian POWs to be marched off, I tried to decide what I should take in the single pack permitted. […]
Books Quotes
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
It may be said that though there is some good paper made now, it is never used except for very expensive books, although it would not materially increase the cost in all but the very cheapest. The paper that is used for ordinary books is exceedingly bad even in this country, but is beaten in […]
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people’s minds for any length of time.
No book is so bad but some good might be got out of it.
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child.
People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.
