“Persistent readers of novels will usually confess that what began as a passion tends to end as a habit.”
Quotes
“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
“Let’s pretend, just for today, all day long, throughout our every thought and decision, that life is easy, that everyone means well, and that time is on our side. Okay? And let’s pretend that we are loved beyond belief, that magic conspires on our behalf, and that nothing can ever hurt us without our consent. All right? And if we like this game, we’ll play tomorrow as well, and the next day, and the next, and pretty soon, it won’t be a game at all, because life, for us, will become those things. Just as it’s become what it is today.” – Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe
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