book-reading

Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Authors do not need to offer us the answers to such weighty questions such as how to live and prepare us to accept death. The aim of a writer__ is to frame worldly questions that allow all readers too independently and jointly explore life-altering questions in a way that satisfies the fabric of thought corresponding to our respective times.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938