Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me โ me and every other reader โ by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I am presumed in every book, even in those Iโll never read.
Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.
No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.
I rode my bike home and did the one thing that always helped when things weren't going well. I read. Books were my refuge. Getting lost in a solid adventure story was the best way I knew of to turn off reality.
Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.
Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.
Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books.
I cannot live without reading.
Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement
Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.
Books require titles; reading them doesn't
He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.
I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.โ --Alison Bechdel
I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.
Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. Itโs the silence, sure, but itโs also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. Itโs the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.
Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.
ูุง ุฃุชุฎูู ุฃู ููุงู ู ู ูุณุชู ุชุน ุฌุฏุงู ุจูุชุงุจ .. ูููุฑุฃู ู ุฑุฉ ูุงุญุฏุฉ !!ู
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.
