If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
An unread book is just a block of paper.
You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.
There’s no beauty without poignancy and there’s no poignancy without the feeling that it’s going, men, names, books, houses – bound for dust – mortal –.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God’s word or the book of God’s works.
But the images of men’s wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Books speak plain when counselors blanch.
This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don’t want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.