My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.
Marilynne RobinsonStichwörter: reading gilead maine
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
Eleanor BrownI bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?
John GreenStichwörter: reading teenagers adults
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.
Tim GunnStichwörter: reading
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award
Kate DiCamilloStichwörter: inspirational reading readers bookselling
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.
Jorge Luis BorgesStichwörter: words reading books literature
We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Anne BishopStichwörter: reading
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
Benjamin J. CareyStichwörter: art friendship reading books happiness love passion family hate romance sadness death marriage literature distance mourning authors babies anger illness depression obsession boredom birth disdain dying disease enjoyment thirst grieving disgust knowlege fondness
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo WaltonStichwörter: reading books tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Warren BuffettStichwörter: reading thinking think business inspirational-life habits warren-buffet hare tortoise
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