As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
Lewis H. LaphamTags: books
I believe in books.
Carole MasoTags: books
There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.
Tõnu ÕnnepaluTags: books
For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia WoolfTags: books
We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
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Tags: reading books time passage-of-time
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Holbrook JacksonThese are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
Gilbert HighetTags: words reading books literature
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
G.K. ChestertonThe face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
Mark TwainWhen you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
Tags: reading books poetry old-age
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