Archive for 'On books'
Baxter on books
Books sometimes fall into your hands in the oddest ways. Meeting up with a particular work of literature may have an eeriness of occasion that resembles an accident that is not really accidental.–Charles Baxter, The Art of Subtext
Groucho on books and reading
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.–Groucho Marx.
Masters on the love of books
…books are piled on our tables, spill in heaps from stuffed shelves, and lie about the floor and on chairs like spoiled pets. I have a miser's greed for books, and I pick them up at random to read a passage or follow an argument or inhabit a poem. I carry them from room to [...]
Elizabeth Drew on literature
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.–Elizabeth Drew
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