For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
Anne Lamott[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Tags: libraries books censorship freedom-of-thought
We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.
Vladimir NabokovTags: words art reading books literature meaning growth
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
John SteinbeckTags: books
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Abraham LincolnTags: attributed-no-source books
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold S. KushnerThen it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
Howard SchwartzLike flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.
Diane SetterfieldTags: words reading books literature
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John UpdikeTags: words art reading books literature
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: books
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