“He who loves books is ridiculously pretentious”
“people Sometimes say that they love the books and I have never understood what they mean. It is like saying that you love the weather or think about breathing, or is fond of the tones, especially the high that allows pling.”
“the Weather is as it is, the one who does not breathe is dead, and the tones will be generally only meaningful in relation to the other.”
“at Home, I have more than 4 000 volumes – fiction, history, political science, memoirs and biographies, travelogues and everything else that fits within the concept of literature. The books give me enough sense of security and unfortunately, a false sense of to reasonably grasp the world, except that I think it is fun to read, of course.”
“In that sense you can say that I love books.”
“at the same time, it is ridiculously pretentious. Anyone who says so wants to signal that he or she is over the unbearable shallowness.”
“I knew a person who was upset that the books are slaughtered because someone wants to take out färgplanscher or some of the pages. But why should you not slay? If the contents of the book more joy on the way?”
“personally, I think it is fun to have them so that they once published. Therefore, I own, for example, the first edition of Stig Dagerman’s ”German autumn”, the best stories any american has written, despite the fact that I have the same text in one or two later editions.”
“Books are cheap. For Dagerman, I gave, for example, 400 dollars, a pittance for such an important book in the original. In antikvariatstaden Hay-on-Wye in Wales, I bought a couple of years ago the first edition of Ian Fleming’s Bondbok ”You only live twice” for £ 25. Not a perfect copy but still. Amazing.”
“that ignores förstaupplagor can go into any bookshop and obtain the world for almost nothing.”
“Sometimes it feels as if the low bokpriserna devalues all the effort and talent that lies behind the words. Writing a poem is the hardest thing a human being can undertake, said the poet Lars Forssell a time, it is more difficult than everything else.”
“of 4 000 or 4 500 volumes represent no material value, they do not provide even a sense of knowledge. The more books you have, the more you realize that you have not read.nInte even my collection of master Jolo, 1900 century’s most important English reporter, is complete.”
“It would be easy to fill in but I obtain only the things that I either intend to read almost immediately, within a few months or so, or that I need as a reference. So the Jolos Amerikaskildringar will have to wait until the spirit falls on.”
“Reading is an important part of my work. Yet it is impossible for me to take me through the boring texts. I lose concentration. I become sleepy. I get more important things to do.”
“the Reading must be pleasurable and it was well, therefore, I was a mediocre student in school.”
“Only one problem there is with books. The relationship to them is life, either you like it or not. “
“If I were so stupid I threw a book today, I know that I need it in the morning. It is a law of nature. Therefore, the book collection never decrease, the need to grow, it is in books and my common destiny.”
“It comes, by the way, not just books.”
“In the country, in a room inside the workshop, I have 26 or 27 volumes of the English weekly Spectator. “
“They are in hearty lagerhyllar that I bought a long time ago, amazing furuhyllor who does not give way under the weight of the collector’s effort.”
“Think not that I am rabid.”
“Books and magazines must not be stored systematically on shelves. Spectator is not, for example, in the order which becomes a cause for concern if I ever actually need to have to get a hold of a specific number.”
“In the attic I have the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescus of collected works in a box. 25 volumes, if I not remember wrong. Every speech he gave and every single text he wrote up to 1980 approximately.”
“on Christmas day, 1989 the resignation of Ceausescu and his wife Elena after a summary trial, he sang the Internationale when they faced the bullets.”
“Nicolae Ceausescus collected works, I probably will not need in the brådrasket.”
“But you never know.n”
