It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

الكتب تهييء للإنسان الحياة التي يهواها.

لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان

Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. They are full of all the things that you don’t get in real life — wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. And quality of attention: we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift. My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Aren’t you?

إن الكتب نفسها ليست في أهمية الأفكار والمعرفة التي تحتويها،

الكتب كالنار في المنزل , تأخذها من جارك وتشعلها في بيتك وتعطيها إلى غيرك , وملكيتها تعود إلى الناس كافة

أعتقد أن هناك أربع دوافع للكتاب:
1- حب الذات الصرف: الرغبة في أن تكون ذكيًا، أن يتم الحديث عنك، أن تُذكر بعد الموت، أن تنتقم من الكبار الذين وبخوك في طفولتك.
2- الحماس الجمالي: إدراك الجمال في العالم الخارجي، أو من ناحية أخرى في الكلمات وترتيبها الصحيح. البهجة من أثر صوت واحدٍ على الآخر. في تماسك النثر الجيد أو إيقاع قصة جيدة
3- الحافز التاريخي: الرغبة في رؤية الأشياء كما هي لإكتشاف حقائق صحيحة وحفظها من أجل استخدام الأجيال القادمة.
4- الهدف السياسي: الرغبة في دفع العالم في إتجاه معين لتغيير أفكار الآخرين حول نوع المجتمع الذي ينبغي عليهم السعي نحوه

ان الناس لاتعرف ان كتابا واحدا كفيل بان يغير مجرى حياة الانسان.

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.

One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time.

We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

أن الكتب اشد خطورة من مؤلفيها

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.