What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E.M. ForsterTags: words reading books literature
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Marcel ProustTags: words reading books solitude literature
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
Alberto ManguelTags: words reading books literature
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan SontagTags: reading books literature science-fiction sci-fi disaster
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John RuskinTags: literature
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
E.M. ForsterTags: books literature self-discovery
Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.
Tags: words reading books literature library
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
Virginia WoolfTags: books literature
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall SmithTags: words reading writing literature authors
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Victor HugoTags: music poetry literature
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