We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.