Films can do many things that novels can’t do, yes – but novels can still do far more things that film can’t do. Film creates a marvelous simulacrum of realism – but I can’t help feeling that it is finally a cartoon realism compared with that of books. Film is wide, as wide as our […]
Books Quotes
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value […]
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes.
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor […]
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The good of a book lies in it being read.
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. “I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.” – “Isn’t he just a librarian?” Garion asked, “somebody who looks after books?” – “That’s where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won’t help you if they’re just piled […]
