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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Ruth Rendell

Stichwörter: life reading books escapism

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

Stichwörter: reading books writing literature authors

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: reading books morality

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

S. Weir Mitchell

Stichwörter: reading

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Stichwörter: reading books pain empathy

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

E.W. Howe

Stichwörter: reading borrowing lending

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

Stichwörter: reading

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron

Stichwörter: reading books

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

C.S. Lewis

Stichwörter: reading religion atheism