The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
A book is a book is a book.
Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.