To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: words reading books freedom literature
Read to lead in order to succeed.
Habeeb AkandeStichwörter: motivational inspirational success reading education empowerment leadership
Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: reading education learning literacy classical-education information-literacy information-management
For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of books in that time, I have not found the one book that will satisfy my urge. It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life. I know enough about the course of the disease to know I'll discover something soon.
Lewis BuzbeeStichwörter: reading books bookstores hunger urges
These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.
Stefanos LivosStichwörter: reading books passion literature books-reading word wordplay
When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security and that while ma'am had been in the Lords the sniffer dogs had been round and security had confiscated the book. He though it had probably been exploded.
'Exploded?' said the Queen. 'But it was Anita Brookner.
Stichwörter: humor reading books
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
Brad MeltzerStichwörter: reading history scholarship research detachment predictability
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
Lynne TrussStichwörter: reading books reading-books journeys
[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years.
"That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said.
"It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.
Stichwörter: reading contemporary-literature
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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