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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

Morning, Reading, Book

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Robertson Davies

Spiritual, Reading, Book

Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Robertson Davies

Art, Book, Reading

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

Robertson Davies

Christian, Reading, Color

Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Robertson Davies

Reading, Past, Thinking

Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Robertson Davies

Book, Reading, People

Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press