Books As Friends Analogy

Table of Contents

• Books as Companions
• Books and Friendship
• Reading and Finding Life
• Books as a Reflection of Self
• Other

Books as Companions

These companions', and he laid his hand on some of the books- 'have been good friends to me.

Friends in books are the best. They sleep in the pages when I don’t want to talk and they share their days with me soundlessly—I know what makes them sad or scared or happy—when I lift their covers.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

All my friends are in my books.

On a day like today,there's no friend like a book.

To be in the company of a good book is better than to be in the company of bad friends.

It is better to be in the company of a good book than to be in the company of bad friends.

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

Books and Friendship

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.

Share a book and you'll make a friend!

Good friends, good books and ability to sleep peacefully is good life.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to.

Share a book and you’ll make a friend!

Reading and Finding Life

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?’

You don’t know how much I need such a friend,” she said. “My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties. I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves. And the other women – my best friends – well, they use me or abuse me; but they don’t care a straw what happens to me. I’ve been about too long – people are getting tired of me; they are beginning to say I ought to marry.

I’m a big reader with no friends.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed.

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble.

Books as a Reflection of Self

Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend. :)

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

I’ve spent most of my life avoiding the companionship of writers. I try never to be rude, just seldom available. Though I have met some of the great writers of our time, I’ve become good friends with very few of them. The tribe is contentious, the breed dangerous.

There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.

Read wisely for a good book is a faithful friend.

Sure. But if the book sucks, we’re re-evaluating the friendship.

Except How to win friends and influence people, I am looking for a kind of book like that

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

I think if I have established anything in my book, it’s that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

I treat every reader as if they were a close friend.

Other

How to win friends and influence people (title of book)

These companions’, and he laid his hand on some of the books- ’have been good friends to me.

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