Speaking of Books contains hundreds of the best of those expressions - entertaining and thought-provoking quotations about the reading and enjoyment of - not to mention obsession with - books. "All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books," wrote Richard de Bury in The Philobiblon (The Love of Books), which was completed in 1345, more than a hundred years before Gutenberg printed his first Bible.Īnd in every generation since de Bury's there have been new voices expressing the pleasures they take in books and reading. In fact, they are even older than printed books. The love of books, and the desire to speak and write of that love, are as old as books themselves. "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading." - Thomas B. "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."
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