It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.
Philip HensherTags: reading-books
Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.
Wil ZeusTags: inspirational truth honesty integrity books-reading honor reading-books life-lesson
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: reading writing writers creativity creative-process editing arts-and-humanities reading-books writing-books gadfly editors editing-humor creative-thinking creative-reading writers-world monet
the book I was reading turned out to be crack
Elizabeth NorrisTags: humor reading-books
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
Virginia WoolfTags: reading-books
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
Anne FadimanTags: humor reading-books
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
Alan BennettTags: reading-books
(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.
Terry PratchettTags: humor reading-books
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
John HodgmanTags: reading-books readers-and-writers john-hodgman
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