"To read a book is to hold..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”

“Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.”

“If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.”

“Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.”

“Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”