quotes for the week

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Thoreau

By bedside and easy chair, books promise

a very swift and silent release from this world into another,

with no current involved but the free

and scarcely detectable crackle of brain cells.

John Updike

Even an ice cream parlor--a definite advantage--does not

alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town without a bookstore.

Natalie Goldberg

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head

instead of one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The best moments in reading are when you come across something--

a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things--

which you had thought special and particular to you.

Now here it is, set down by someone else,

a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead,

and it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

Alan Bennett