Reflections on books and literature

I do not know if it has happened to you, I suppose it has, but there are few things as pleasant for a reader as finding a book that you love, starting to read it and having those mixed feelings on the one hand wanting to finish it and at the same time not have an end because we know that it is going to cost us to get hooked so much to a new book ... Do you understand me right? What was the last book you read that caught you this way?

That is why it is sometimes good to remember why we read, why the "idle" time we spend with a book is not wasted time, why it is good to read the ideas of writers of yesteryear and today ... In this In this article you will see some reflections about books and literature, written or said by the writers themselves and other «art creators».

Quotes about books, about writers, about readers ...

• "One becomes great because of what he reads and not because of what he writes" (Borges).
• "Learning to read is the most important thing that has happened to me in life" (Mario Vargas Llosa).
• "Some books are tested, others eaten, very few chewed and digested" (Sir Francis Bacon).
• "A good book is not only written to multiply and transmit the voice, but also to perpetuate it" (John Ruskin).
• «A book has to be the ax that breaks our frozen sea» (Franz Kafka).
• "When we pray we talk to God, but when we read it is God who talks to us" (Saint Augustine).
• "He who reads a lot and walks a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot" (Miguel de Cervantes).
• "A classic work is a book that everyone admires, but no one reads" (Ernest Hemingway).
• "As much or more important than knowing the foods we have to eat to be healthy is knowing the books we have to read to be wise" (Robert sydney smith).
• "Reading a book teaches more than talking to its author, because the author, in the book, has only put his best thoughts" (René Descartes).
• «I always imagined that Paradise would be some kind of library» (Jorge Luis Borges).
• "Reading is for me something like the railing on balconies" (Núria Espert).
• "You know you've read a good book when closing the cover after reading the last page makes you feel like you've lost a friend" (Paul Sweney).
• "The memory left by a book is more important than the book itself" (Gustavo Adolfo Becquer).