Author Lois Winston writes the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack
Crafting Mystery series (sound familiar? Hint: it’s the series about moi!) as
well as romance, romantic suspense, women’s fiction, and non-fiction under her
own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Her most recent release is Revenge of the Crafty Corpse, the third book in the series about moi. Today she stops by to share with us some very special quotes about the
value of reading. Learn more about Lois at her website and her Emma Carlyle website. – AP
25 Quotes on the Worth of Reading
When I was a child, I
escaped into books. They were my refuge from a childhood that was less than
ideal. So it always comes as a shock to me when people tell me they don’t read.
I can’t imagine a world without books to read, whether they be physical books
or ebooks. Here are some thoughts on the topic by others:
1. You know you've read a
good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a
friend. -- Paul Sweeney
2. Books are the quietest
and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of
counselors, and the most patient of teachers. -- Charles William Eliot
3. 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 and you could call him up
on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. --
J.D. Salinger
4. 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. -- Mortimer J. Adler
5. Books are the plane,
and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They
are home. -- Anna Quindlen
6. You think your pain and
your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you
read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were
the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who
had ever been alive. -- James Baldwin
7. The best moments
in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of
looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And
now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone
even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours --
Alan Bennett
8. Today a reader,
tomorrow a leader. -- Margaret Fuller
9. A book is like a
garden carried in the pocket. -- Chinese Proverb
10. Books serve to
show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
-- Abraham Lincoln
11. So please, oh PLEASE,
we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A
lovely bookshelf on the wall. -- Roald Dahl
12. To read without
reflecting is like eating without digesting. -- Edmund Burke
13. A house without books
is like a room without windows. --
Heinrich Mann
14. 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
15. To
read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to
read it for a second time is to meet an old one. -- Chinese Saying
16.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books, and you give me an
interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three, and
you give me a dangerous enemy mind. -- Anne Rice
17.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts
when all other pleasures fade. -- Anthony Trollope
18.
We read to know we are not alone. -- C.S. Lewis
19.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or
surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. – Confucius
20.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the
past centuries. – Descartes
21.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the
more places you’ll go. -- Dr. Seuss
22.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be
chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon
23.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. -- Frederick Douglass
24.
Read in order to live. -- Gustave Flaubert
25.
A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance. --
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Revenge of the Crafty Corpse
Anastasia Pollack’s dead louse of a spouse has left her with
more bills than you can shake a crochet hook at, and teaching craft classes at
her mother-in-law’s assisted living center seems like a harmless way to
supplement her meager income. But when Lyndella Wegner—a 98-year-old
know-it-all with a penchant for ruffles and lace—turns up dead, Anastasia’s
cantankerous mother-in-law becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Upon
discovering that Lyndella’s scandalous craft projects—and her scandalous behavior—made
her plenty of enemies, Anastasia sets out to find the real killer before her
mother-in-law ends up behind bars.
