Needle and ThREAD

Weekend Book Quotes

book-thief.jpgWhat’s on my mp3 player? The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. –Daniel J. Boorstein

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. –Elizabeth Drew

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. –Edward M. Forster

One sheds one’s sicknesses in books — repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them. –D. H. Lawrence

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. –Atwood H. Townsend

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