#reading

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

"Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie."

"If you love books enough, books will love you back."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)"

"The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world."

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

"The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder."

"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey."

"There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book."

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"

"I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?"

"My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art."

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly."

"A good reading strengthens the soul."