If a
book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach
other hearts. All art and author craft are of small
account to that.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
The
best effect of any book, is that it excites the
reader to self-activity.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
What
we become depends on what we read after all the
professors have finished with us. The greatest
university of all is the collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your
experience of the world. You bring your history and
you read it in your own terms.
-- Angela Carter
1940-1992, British
Author