I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Calmness is the cradle of power.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
I think good books have to make a few people angry.
I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.
When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.