#books

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#books #literature #reading #writing #read

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#readers #reading #reading-books #dance

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. ↗

— Jane Austen

#library #reading #read

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. ↗

— Sir Francis Bacon

#reading #read

Books are a uniquely portable magic. ↗

— Stephen King

#magic #reading #read

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#reading #read

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ↗