While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
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