Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.
There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.
A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.