
“The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read”
Source: Journey Within (1947), Ch. 2 : The Three Revelations
Context: No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. And the most objective books are the most deceptive. The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
Source: Speech after the London Bridge attack (4 June 2017)
New York Times (October 9, 1985)
“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”
Sexuality Desexualized http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/features/a/aeon_flux_050706/
Source: "Gong Yoo on becoming South Korea’s leading man" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/28/asia/gong-yoo-talk-asia/index.html (30 August 2017)