To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
~ Chinese Saying
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain
Laws die, books never. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Unread Story… ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Author – Born: October 21, 1929
“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.” ~ John Ruskin
John Ruskin – English art critic 1819-1900
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
– Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
Henry Rollins Quote
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
~Henry Rollins
