I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and Thirties like a fish falling into water. She was, in some ways, a deeply flawed human being, and perhaps she makes a strange kind of hero for someone like me, committed to the ethical and spiritual dimensions of my craft as well as to the technical ones, but a hero and strong influence she remains nonetheless.
Source: Her blog.
Stichwörter: reading writing inspiring anaïs-nin
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
Jorge Luis BorgesAfter ten whole minutes of painful silence, I finally raised my hand and told Mr. O'Hara I loved Miranda Blythe's romance novels, and I decided I liked him immediately when he didn't laugh or reassure me that we'd be reading real books. Like Mrs. Andrews had last year.
He did say, 'I'm afraid Ms. Blythe is not on the curriculum this semester. We'll be starting your education with the epic poets—boring, I know, but necessary building blocks. However, an extra-credit book report is always welcome, and you're free to choose whatever topic you like.'
Then Mr. O'Hara added, 'I think Ms. Blythe's works would be a particularly interesting topic for a report. In fact, if you want an example of the archetypal hero journey—'
'Wait, wait, wait.' Fred raised his hand. 'You read romance novels?'
'My dear boy,' Mr. O'Hara replied, 'I read everything.
Stichwörter: reading
Boredom is why God invented books.
Julie SchumacherAnd read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
David McCullough Jr.Stichwörter: reading
Είναι αργός ο θάνατος για όσους δεν διαβάζουν
Pablo NerudaStichwörter: reading
So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
Elizabeth GoudgeStichwörter: reading loneliness privacy
Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.
Pseudonymous BoschStichwörter: reading
Olho ao redor e vejo que muitos — não todos, mas muitos — problemas que temos poderiam ser sanados, se nossa cultura simplesmente fomentasse o hábito da leitura. Ler livros de ciência, filosofia, história. Ler literatura de qualidade, do tipo que nos toque por uma razão mais profunda, como, por exemplo, por ter algo a dizer para além das futilidades e miudezas da vida, mesmo quando retrata o ordinário da vida, ao mesmo tempo em que o diz com estilo, de um modo ímpar, admirável. Original.
Porém, não somos um país de leitores. Somos o país do futebol transformado em culto, da malandragem elevada a virtude cardinal, do Carnaval tipo exportação. Um país onde há mais letras formando siglas partidárias do que em tudo o que muitos de nossos políticos já escreveram na vida. Um país onde ética se tornou mote para piadas. Onde a democracia não passa de um ridículo teatro de fantoches.
Sim. Olho a meu redor e vejo que muitos problemas que temos poderiam ser sanados, tivéssemos o hábito da leitura. Mas nem sei se alguém está lendo estas palavras.
Stichwörter: reading leitura critical-mindset mentalidade-crítica
Ler é acumular conhecimento. Mas não apenas isso. Ler nos oferece todo dia o que a religião nos promete para um futuro póstumo e improvável: a possibilidade de vivermos mais do que nosso tempo de vida nos permite fazê-lo.
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