[...] We keep a record for every member, and for every customer who might yet become a member, in order to track their work." He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed."
"What are they doing?"
"My boy," he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading.
She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
Jane AustenTags: reading
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.
Susan Sontag[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.
Susan SontagTags: reading books entertainment amusement solace diversion fortification refreshment
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.
Annie DillardBooks are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
Stephen KingTags: words reading books literature
Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.
Nicole ChristieTags: reading writing fiction escape
Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.
Jennifer PatersonI look at every book as a self-help book.
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