Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.