"Naturally, since I myself am a writer,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
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“We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.”
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?”
More on Reading
“There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.”
“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”
“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.”
More on Books
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.”
“What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.”