The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Books Quotes
Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned – the biggest word of all – look.
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
A book that is shut is but a block.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
All good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed. Indeed – no book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
