I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
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My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.