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Heal yourself with a book!
We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.
Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.
Retrophrenologist,
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.
What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood.
Scholars heal poetic texts; poetry, to some degree, may heal scholars.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
The only patient being treated by the writer is himself
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.
ignorant editors and a smothering patron - produced the sort of dependence that affects,
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
Elixirs. Pills. Specialists. Are they meant to help us, or to keep us compliant?" -Daphne Leander
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Books are my Disease.
I am my brain's publisher.
Are you asking because you want to see if doc can turn you into a librarian when all this is over? [p.240:]
Books are a habit-forming drug.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.
Dangerous things, books."
"Look what it did to your brain.
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other
Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Books are embalmed minds.
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.
Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Literature doesn't exactly have a strong mental-health track record.
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
Reading civilized the inner life.
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.
I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.
God bless the Reference Librarians
Books are a narcotic.
One book led to another; reading during my free time became a new fondness. Nonetheless, there was never much consideration of being a scholar when beginning to do so. The titles I was turning to seemed to speak directly to me, and soon the reviews became one of my favorite things to do.
Literature is achieved anxiety.
Books are the training weights of the mind.
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
"That comes
as you call it
of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.
The brevity of mini (psycho)therapies is another efficient forestaller of healing. The neocortex rapidly master didactic information, but the limbic brain takes mountains of repetition. No one expects to play the flute in six lessons or to become fluent in Italian in ten. (189)
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.
Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.
Books are like bacon for the mind.
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood,
A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous
I was in a bibliophile's Eylsium.
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]
Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!
There were books involved.
Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Fiction is a branch of neurology
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
...at it's best fiction is medicine.
Authors can alter your life.
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike
But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself included. it kept me from being an industrialist. it allowed me to endure some women that most men would never be able to live with. it gave me space, a pause. it helped me to write this.
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
Science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."
Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you.
Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind.
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.
Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.
Throughout my life, even when times were tough, I never stopped buying books. Or, come to think of it, booze. My library is dusty and well stocked. My liver is well worn.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.