BOOKS

I'd like to meet:

"TODAY, MANY YEARS LATER AND MILLIONS OF WORDS LATER, I STILL GET A POSITVELY PHYSICAL PLEASURE FROM A BEAUTIFULLY CARVED SENTENCE OR A POWERFULLY EXPRESSED IDEA." A. HUFFINGTON

"INK RUNS FROM THE CORNER OF MY MOUTH. THERE IS NO HAPPINESS LIKE MINE. I HAVE BEEN EATING POETRY." STRAND

"AH! THE BOOKS THAT ONE WILL NEVER READ AGAIN. THEY GAVE DELIGHT, PERCHANCE, SOMETHING MORE; THEY LEFT A PERFUME IN THE MEMORY;...PERHAPS WHEN I LIE WAITING FOR THE END SOME OF THESE LOST BOOKS WILL COME INTO MY WANDERING THOUGHTS, AND I SHALL REMEMBER THEM AS FRIENDS TO WHOM I OWED A KINDNESS-FRIENDS PASSED UPON THE WAY." G. GISSING

TO READ IN BED IS TO DRAW AROUND US INVISIBLE, NOISELESS CURTAINS. THEN AT LAST WE ARE IN A ROOM OF OUR OWN AND READY TO BURROW BACK, BACK, BACK TO THAT PRIVATE LIFE OF THE IMAGINATION WE ALL LED AS CHILDREN AND TO WHOSE SECRET SATISFACTIONS SO MANY OF US HAS MISLAID THE KEY." FADIMAN

"I CAN NOT SLEEP UNLESS I AM SURROUNDED BY BOOKS." BORGES

"A WONDERFUL THING ABOUT A BOOK, IN CONTRAST TO A COMPUTER SCREEN, IS THAT YOU CAN TAKE IT TO BED WITH YOU." BOORSTIN

"NOTHING IS PLEASANTER THAN EXPLORING A LIBRARY." LANDOR

"WHEN I GOT MY LIBRARY CARD, THAT IS WHEN MY LIFE BEGAN." RITA BROWN

"WRITING IS THE ONLY PROFESSION WHERE NO ONE CONSIDERS YOU RIDICULOUS IF YOU EARN NO MONEY." JULES RENARD