Book Ownership Philosophy

Table of Contents

• Value of Books
• Book Quantity vs Quality
• TBR Lists and Infinite Books
• Re-reading and Book Impact
• Book Ownership and Collecting
• Books as a Lifelong Journey
• Books and Reality
• Books in Comparison to Other Media
• Books as Personal Connections
• Other

Value of Books

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

It’s not how many books you read or even the type of books you read. It’s how the books make you feel.

It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.

Books are often far more than just books.

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Each book is a world entire. You’re going to have to take more than one pass at it.

Book Quantity vs Quality

It isn’t about how many books you read. What counts is the books you re-read.

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.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.

A multitude of books only gets in one's way. So if you are unable to read all the books in your possession, you have enough when you have all the books you are able to read.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s like looking up at the star-filled sky.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

To read too many books is harmful.

TBR Lists and Infinite Books

Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

You can never have enough books. But you certainly tried. It was a really, really, really good try.

Readers can only read so many books in a month. And unless you give them a really good reason to read your book, they'll prefer to read some other, more famous book. You're competing for the reader's attention. And if you don't even know that, you've already lost.

How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.

the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.

You can never, never have too many books.

There are too many books in the world.

Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don’t have two hundred books somewhere that you haven’t read yet, I don’t trust you.

Re-reading and Book Impact

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

It’s not how many books you read or even the type of books you read. It’s how the books make you feel.

You can read a book more than once, you know. You might even find a book inside the book.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?

Book Ownership and Collecting

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

I guess there are never enough books.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

All thinking people are in constant need of more books.

I, for one, never can have too many books; nor can my books cover too many subjects. I may never read them all, but they are always there, and I never know what strange coast I am going to pick up at any time in sailing the world of knowledge.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

You can never, never have too many books

How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.

One can never have too many books.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

Books as a Lifelong Journey

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Every book is a marathon.

If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!

You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill’s essay On Liberty, or Hobbes’s Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

Books and Reality

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

What good is your knowledge of five thousand books if it doesn't even help five people!

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.

Books in Comparison to Other Media

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other everyday, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

Books as Personal Connections

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

I don't judge these things by numbers. How many people read 'Paradise Lost' when it was published? Two hundred? Three? As long as there's one reader, the book is doing what a book does. Books are irreplaceable, because they're the only place in the universe where two strangers can meet on absolutely intimate terms. We need to tell stories as human beings. People are as hungry for that as they have ever been.

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

When you think about it, each book is a lot of lives. Dozens and dozens of them.

Other

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Chicken Soup for the Soul". You've heard of these books, am I right? We've all heard of them. But I wonder if you're aware of just how many "Chicken Soup" books exist on the planet. No offense, but I doubt it. I doubt it because in the time it would take you to come up with a number, the number would have become obsolete. Even as you read this, in some quiet, fecund place, another "Chicken Soup" book is being born.

If I had read as many books as other people, I would know as little.

I’ve read many more books than you. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve read.I’ve read more. Believe me. I’ve had the time.

Too many books. Too few centuries.

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.

Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows?

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

Most people don't read books, but when they do, mine are the first, and that's enough for me.

I have read 391 books... please- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me

Everyone should read at least 10 books in their lifetime - it helps your mind, develops your imagination, and can help you escape your reality.

You can never have too many books or too many hugs.

Some books have too much tennis.Some books have too much baseball.Some books have too much boxing.Some books have too much horse.

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

So this is what I get for reading too many books I suppose.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books, .. If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

The Internet has about 500,000 sites where the book is discussed - about half and half for and against.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

There's always something arbitrary when you limit a list to a fixed number. There easily could be 100 for another book.

You know I have done about a dozen books.

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn’t just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It’s a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don’t read. In truth, I wish you’d read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don’t know that there’s anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you’re going to write before you die.

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