For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.Howard Jacobson
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!Friedrich Nietzsche
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.Henry David Thoreau