I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books read child chilldhood
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books escapism
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Anna QuindlenStichwörter: reading books travel
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.
Anne LamottStichwörter: life reading writing
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
René DescartesStichwörter: words reading books literature
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.
Umberto EcoStichwörter: reading
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H.P. LovecraftStichwörter: words reading books literature library
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando PessoaStichwörter: reading solitude literature
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
Stichwörter: reading
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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
Anne HerbertStichwörter: money reading books book-lovers
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