“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Attributed to Keillor in The Miracle of Language (1999) by Richard Lederer, p. 149, this statement also appears in What? (1988) by Ronald Silliman, p. 28:
A book is a gift you can open again and again especially when you're writing it yourself.
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American radio host and writer 1942Related quotes
“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”
Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
“Who has seen with their eyes open can see again, but with the eyes closed.”
Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
Voces (1943)
Source: Costly Grace, p. 45.
Context: Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner.
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 9, “Chartman Jones” (p. 95)
“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”
As quoted in "Bermudian" (November 1950) by James Thurber
