There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.