books

I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so much reading. it is rather when we gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'tis then we get the right good from the book.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez__ novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don__ read a book I don__ like so it doesn__ solve any of my problems.

Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it.

Books are carnival rides for your imagination.

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don__ just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters__n worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will often determine whether you love or hate the book.Both emotions lead to disappointment. If the ending was good, and the book was worth your time, then you are left annoyed and depressed because there is no more book to read. However, if the ending was bad, then it's too late to stop reading. You're left annoyed and depressed because you wasted so much time on a book with a bad ending.Therefore, reading is obviously worthless, and you should go spend your time on other, more valuable pursuits.

Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. __artin, Martin, Martin,_ she said, __he population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg__ day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man__ frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot lend itself to these fluctuations, it is useful only while it seems strictly true, and afterwards it is completely out of date.