A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William StyronThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Augustine of HippoTags: books education world classic travel allegory broad-mindedness imagery
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C.S. LewisBook collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.
Jeanette WintersonWe're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.
Ray BradburyTags: books history war winning aftermath burial generations grave history-repeating-itself lonely remember
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson DaviesTags: reading books perspective architecture rereading
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
C.S. LewisTags: reading books children-s-books
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane AustenIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar WildeA woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
Caroline MytingerTags: books woman women destiny girl
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