You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
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Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
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.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
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.
Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.
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.
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
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