Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged, adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.
Thomas S. MonsonTags: reading
Life happened because I turned the pages.
Alberto ManguelTags: words reading books literature
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
Scott CorbettTags: reading
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred HitchcockI kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: inspirational reading books on-writing
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]
Tags: reading books soul secrets
I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
Sarah Orne JewettTags: reading
I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
Katherine HanniganTags: reading
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Benjamin FranklinTags: words reading books literature illiteracy pity
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: reading books we-are-what-we-eat we-are-what-we-read you-are-what-you-eat you-are-what-you-read
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