The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
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