“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
Source: The Historian
“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
Source: Listening Valley
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As cited in: Ching-chih Chen (1980) Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service. p. 52.
Libraries of the future, 1965
“One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.”
Roger Kahn
(1927–2020) American baseball writer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6
Edmund Wilson
(1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters
The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix
“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”
Douglas William Jerrold
(1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Books, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Harry Emerson Fosdick
(1878–1969) American pastor
Statement of 1937 or earlier, as quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow
Context: Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one's best.
“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.”
Mason Cooley
(1927–2002) American academic
“When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.”
Source: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams