Author: Jennifer Sien

“Books bring with them detachment and a critical attitude that is not possible in a society dependent on the spoken word.” – David Riesman, Oral Tradition, Written Word, Screen Image

“Persistent readers of novels will usually confess that what began as a passion tends to end as a habit.”

“There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don’t understand them: sold by people who don’t understand them: bound, criticized, and read by people who don’t understand them: and now even written by people who don’t understand them.” – George Christopher Lictenberg, The Notebook

“Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.” – Harry Golden

“I like rereading books, too. I don’t trust folk who don’t reread…What you’ve got to teach people is to read slowly.” – Robert Frost

“There is a saying that ‘paper is more patient than man’…there is no doubt that paper is patient and I don’t and I don’t intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of ‘diary’ to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.” – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“I would define a book as a work of witchcraft from which there escapes all sorts of images which disturb people’s minds and change their hearts.” – Anatole France

“We are often told that we are what we eat. In our world since e-printing press, it might be more accurate to say we are what we read. How each of us digests what we read is a mystery. And what people really read is sometimes as puzzling as what they really think.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

“The key to successful biography lies in the depth of a writer’s empathy.” – Judith Shulevitz

“The next thing most like living one’s life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.” – Benjamin Franklin