"Ideally a book would have no order..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
More by Mark Twain
“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”
“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
“'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.”
More on Books
“We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them”
“Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.”
“A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.”
More on Reading
“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.”
“Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.”
“Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.”