There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher MorleyTags: books bibliophilia
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: libraries reading books freedom censorship thought
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra PoundThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Joseph JoubertWhere is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward BeecherSome say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Ruth RendellTags: life reading books escapism
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
Louisa May AlcottWhat really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J.D. SalingerTags: reading books writing literature authors
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
Ray BradburyA book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: books star universe fire
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