Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]
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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna QuindlenThere was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
Karen Joy FowlerTags: books
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Pat ConroyShe read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
Jane HamiltonTags: books
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
Alan BennettWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E.M. ForsterTags: words reading books literature
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Marcel ProustTags: words reading books solitude literature
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
Alberto ManguelTags: words reading books literature
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