A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in read more

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a read more

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more

In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.