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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.’ Voltaire
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The last book I read I will talk about would be Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
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The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it–a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear’s cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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The new church of St. John’s, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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The novel can’t compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who’s had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. Samuel Butler quotes
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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The only way to write a book is to sit in chair.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.’ G K Chesterton
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.- Katharine Mansfield
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