It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.