Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
Alan BennettStichwörter: reading books experience travel hobbies
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore RooseveltStichwörter: reading
I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.
Bill HicksStichwörter: reading tennessee waffle nashville waffles
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
Iain BanksStichwörter: reading history sci-fi
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
Elbert HubbardStichwörter: reading
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
Holbrook JacksonStichwörter: reading books procrastination
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John WitherspoonStichwörter: wisdom reading books
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
Peter UstinovThe books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great figures in history, narratives that stir our spirit, fictions that tug us out of ourselves and into the lives of a thousand others, and visions of every era through which human beings have lived. And in the process of stretching who we are, books also connect us to all others- of our own or previous times- who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.
A well-composed book,' says Caroline Gordon, 'is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Fiction is life by design.
Mary KittredgeStichwörter: reading
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