Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
Jackson PearceStichwörter: inspirational reading books teens
Reading is more important than writing.
Roberto BolañoStichwörter: reading
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
David Foster WallaceStichwörter: libraries reading
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading censorship illiteracy dictators
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace MannStichwörter: reading
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
Arlaina TibenskyStichwörter: reading books literature movies
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
Anne BrontëStichwörter: reading books leisure hobby
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen KellerStichwörter: words reading books education opinions literature criticism classics
And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.
Ross KingStichwörter: reading books bookshelf
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
Lynne Sharon SchwartzStichwörter: words reading books literature
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