The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
If you have a book, you have a friend.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.