Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books are a finer world within the world.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
I cannot live without books.
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
I think that books are fundamentally educational.
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
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.
No one knows why books do well.