“Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.” WorldWantBookOrderNamesPagesConsolationExaminingPreoccupationGreat BookTrue Knowledge Book:Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.” StillsBookHandsTogetherPagesSticksExcitementDelightfulGreat BookSecond HandBookshops Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays
“There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanBookSometimesCertainInterestRealizingSituationWrittenLandPagesTopicsLapFilesProgressionLinearGreat Book Author:Jodi Picoult
“The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.” ThinkingFeelsLongBookMomentsUseLastsReadingImaginationPagesTreasureForestsIslandsGreat BookMagical MomentsTreasure IslandDavid Thoreau Author:Tony Robbins
“The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.” YearsBookLightPagesLeatherStainsGreat BookBleachClovers Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.” GivingBookFeelingsMissingPagesGreat Book Author:Kathryn Stockett