In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
Alberto ManguelTags: books world secret book pages
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books book titles
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
Anne FadimanTags: reading books stories story book
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
Anne FadimanEvery face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
Virginia WoolfTags: books windows book search faces face pages shop shops window
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.
Tara Bray SmithTags: reading books writing read book television internet movies marginalia
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
Christian BaumanTags: books literature book
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar WildeTags: harm writing despair bible book the-bible
The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.
Douglas RushkoffIf you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.
Mark GlamackTags: politics friends reading books family parents people fantasy book novel teenagers teens
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