Books And Timelessness

Table of Contents

• Endurance of Books
• Books and Aging
• Books as Companions
• Books Across Generations
• Timeless Influence of Books
• Books and Personal Growth
• Books in Modern Context
• Other

Endurance of Books

Books exceed authors' lifespan.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog.

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there’s something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that’s timeless.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

Books and Aging

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people – they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you’re older.

Books as Companions

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”“What a strange thing to say at your age,” she laughed.“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope —- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

Books aren’t eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesn’t mean it’s gone bad.” There was now an edge to Monsieur Perdu’s voice too. “What is wrong with old? Age isn’t a disease. We all grow old, even books. But are you, is anyone, worth less, or less important, because they’ve been around for longer?

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.

He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they’re addictive.” Gamache.

There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come along and pull them from their appointed slots. Take your time, the books whispered to me in their dusty voices. We’re not going anywhere.

Two people do not really live together until their books become one library. You have known just how to classify your own – books you have had, some of them since you were eleven years old. Strange now to have them adapting themselves to the books of some one else – these two life-histories becoming one, two pasts uniting.

Books Across Generations

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.

J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Timeless Influence of Books

That’s one of the problems—and joys—of old age: every time you read a book it’s the first.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

Finally you get to the age when a book’s power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

I’ve always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

Books and Personal Growth

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

Finally you get to the age when a book’s power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world’s wrong the greatest of all.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred Brendel took up the piano on a whim at 25 when he found accountancy unpleasant.

Books in Modern Context

After all we gonna find that pleny of the books which, we have put on our shelfs are useless and helpless... but still when we were younger at a day and age... and we thought this books are going to help us!

Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange...

The age of the book is almost gone.

People who still read books were a rare breed – and becoming more rare all the time. God Bless the readers of the world.

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

Other

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

When someone assumes a two thousand year old book to be perfection, there is no reasoning with such a person.

...the chief reason that ["A Wrinkle in Time"] was rejected for over two years and by thirty-odd publishers was because it is a difficult book for many adults, the decision was made to market it as a children's book; it won a medal for children's books.

There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life.

Years teach us more than books.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

It's a tradition and the books from past years are so good.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

It's not an easy book. The book challenges the young reader to see the modern world in light of the lessons of the past.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

As the audience has gotten older in time, faithful readers of the Potter books will remain faithful to the movies,

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s

The newest books are those that never grow old.

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books,

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them because they were diverting or illuminating or in some way useful but not because the books themselves were aesthetically appealing.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

Half the charm in old books is the marks of living they acquire;.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Most books don’t even come into the world with the noise of the still-born.

Perhaps I have a strange affinity for old books.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

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