′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
A half read book is a half finished love affair.
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
