I don’t believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s a classic… something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Books Quotes
Only your friends steal your books.
Books still offer the most complete kind of understanding, and they last.
I do not read anything but history and biography. You perceive that for me to presume to indicate the hundred authors which a person ought to read, would be folly. No, leave me out: My testimony would not be valuable.
If you were to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. […]
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.
And so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d ‘a’ knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t ‘a’ tackled it, and ain’t a-going to no more.
Man builds no structure which outlives a book.
The important thing about a paperback, and I think printing might have been invented for the paper back -is that it’s portable, dispensable and cheap. Essentially not valuable. No morality is involved in taking care of it.
I have no liking for novels or stories-none in the world; and so, whenever I read one-which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book-my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter […]
