Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
We cannot give our children what we don’t have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.
If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.
People are living books. The real library of life is community.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects – with their Christianity latent.
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.