I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
Jean GionoTags: reading fiction interpretation
Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more on fiction than he does on food; he'll be more interested in his library than in his relationships, and, since few people are prepared to live in a place where every available surface is covered with piles of books, he'll often find himself alone, perhaps in the company of a neglected and malnourished cat. When he dies, all but forgotten, his body might fester for days before a curious neighbor grows concerned about the smell.
Mikita BrottmanTags: libraries reading books bibliophilia bibliophiles
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John LubbockOh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
Betty SmithTags: reading
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."
Are you, Joe?"
Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
Tags: reading
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher MorleyTags: reading
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert BurtonTags: words reading books literature
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerTags: words reading books freedom literature
The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
Betty SmithTags: reading books experience read feelings library smell mood bookish
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
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