Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
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.