Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer. ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!).
Tony ReinkeTag: goals reading books ambition limitations
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.
Leon WieseltierTag: words reading books literature
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."
"Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?"
"How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
Tag: life reading history death
I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.
Joe QueenanTag: reading strangers collars shirts
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
Mark Jason DominusTag: reading books library immortality
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
E.A. BucchianeriTag: reading books writers literary-criticism literature book criticism authors novels critics author judging covers i-love-books i-love-reading i-love-to-read book-cover book-covers fair-chance fair-judgement
There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…
Chris GeigerTag: reading books book reading-books
...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...
John GeddesTag: reading write living writer poems poetry-quotes fantasize
It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it’s all over and the dreaded book funk sets in. Find the next best thing to fill the void, then repeat steps one through three as necessary.
Rachael WadeTag: reading book-lovers fangirling
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.
John McGahernTag: reading publishing book-business
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