Burn the libraries, for their value is in this one book. (The Quran)
Books Quotes
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
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.
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.
