Vilma Reading On A Sofa
Tavik Frantisek Simon
If someone said to me,
how did you spend your life?
I'd have to say,
lying on the sofa reading.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Sunlight and Shadow
Winslow Homer
A day out-of-doors,
someone I loved to talk with,
a good book and some simple food
and music—that would be rest.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Rest
Deborah DeWit
In the case of good books,
the point is not to see how many
of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
The Garden Window
Daniel F. Gerhartz
We read books to find out who we are.
What other people, real or imaginary,
do and think and feel. . .
is an essential guide to our understanding
of what we ourselves are and may become.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
A Woman Reading
Camille Corot
Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses,
which caught the minutest refraction
or echo of a thought or feeling. . . .
She heard a deeper vibration,
a kind of composite echo,
of all that the writer said,
and did not say.
~ Willa Cather
A Girl Reading
Jessie Willcox-Smith
Oh! For a book, and a cozy nook
And oh! For a quiet hour,
When care and strife and worry of life,
Have lost their dreaded power,
When you read with zest the very best
That mind to mind can give,
And quaff your joy without alloy,
And feel it is good to live.
~ Anonymous
Madame Claude Monet Reading
Pierre Auguste Renoir
God forbid that any book
should be banned. The
practice is as indefensible as
infanticide.
~ Rebecca West
Friday Nights
Deborah DeWit
The pleasure of all reading
is doubled when one lives
with another who shares the
same books.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Woman Reading
Yamashita Shintaro
Books are the carriers
of civilization. Without
books, history is silent,
literature dumb, science
crippled, thought and
speculation at a standstill.
They are engines of
change, windows on the
world, (as a poet said)
lighthouses erected in the
sea of time. They are
companions, teachers,
magicians, bankers of the
treasures of the mind.
Books are humanity
in print.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Orchard Window
Daniel Garber
Just the knowledge
that a good book is awaiting one
at the end of a long day
makes that day happier.
~ Kathleen Norris
The New Novel
Winslow Homer
