![]() ![]() I fancy that at the beginning some fairy may have offered me the choice between great power and station and the privilege of living always among books, and that I, like the good child in the fairy tale, chose the latter. ~William Styron, interview with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton, in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958Īnyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ![]() What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. ~Virginia Woolf, letter to John Lehmann, 1931Īs for Flaubert, Madame Bovary is one of the few novels that moves me in every way, not only in its style, but in its total communicability, like the effect of good poetry. ~ The Middle, "Hecks on a Train," written by Tim Hobert I decided there's two types of people in the world - people who are meant to live their life to the fullest, and people who are meant to read about those people. ~Thomas Frognall Dibdin, "Bibliographiana," The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal, 1807 April 11th S EE A LSO: LITERATURE, AUDIO BOOKS, E-BOOKS, READING IN BED, SMELL OF BOOKS, BOOKWORMS (INSECTS), BOOKWORMS (PEOPLE), NOSE IN BOOKS, NOSE–BOOKS HEAD–CLOUDS, BOOKSHELVES, TYPOGRAPHY, LIBRARIES, LIBRARY CARDS, LIBRARIANS MUST READ, COMMONPLACE BOOKS, FAIRY TALES, POETRY, STORIES, BOOK DEDICATIONS, CENSORSHIP, QUOTATIONS, WRITINGĮvery man likes to be his own librarian. ![]() Book and Reading Quotes The Quote Garden ™ ![]()
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