24 Quotes by Charlie Lovett

Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustrations and reduced reading to nothing but a stream of text in whatever font and size they chose. Reading without books, thought Arthur, was like playing cricket without dressing in white. It could be done, but why?

Childhood is something you never forget or leave behind, but that doesn’t mean you should dwell in it. There is a great chasm between a man who always has a child-like part of his spirit and one who is eternally childish.

Food that is perfectly suitable for the mind of a child will not nourish that of a man.

What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.

King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.

I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination.

Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Unlikely is not the same as impossible...