He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.
Ayn RandIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison
Sean LiburdStichwörter: reading toni-morrison african-american writing-life
Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.
Sven BirkertsStichwörter: reading
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Lawrence DurrellStichwörter: reading reality confirmation
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Austin PhelpsI read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: reading writing ideas novels
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
Marguerite YourcenarStichwörter: words reading books knowledge literature self
Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.
Joan LingardStichwörter: reading
One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
Ivan StoikovStichwörter: reading books writing fantasy allan-bard tale-of-the-rock-pieces
Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.
Ivan StoikovStichwörter: reading books writing fantasy allan-bard
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