There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.
Anna QuindlenLibraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds.
Rebecca SolnitTags: imagination libraries reading books knowledge history
the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.
Andrew KaufmanTags: reading lonely outsiders loners
A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.
Stefanos LivosTags: reading books literature travel
It's more important to be read than paid.
S.L. WalkerRemember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.
Andrew KaufmanTags: truth reading books stories reading-books
I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reading books criticism subjectivity book-reviews
Curioso: tal como el escritor selecciona un género -muchas veces no por voluntad propia, sino por las afinidades, las inclinaciones, los gustos- en el cual se siente a sus anchas, lo mismo sucede con el lector. Piénsese cuántos lectores hay que en su vida no han leído más que una novela policíaca; otros, que únicamente se han asomado a la poesía, o los que desde luego nada más se han detenido en las novelas de ciencia ficción. De todos y cada uno podría decirse lo mismo: felices ellos. Porque persisten. Y porque, cuando menos hasta que terminen lo que están leyendo, tienen un motivo más para vivir.
Eusebio RuvalcabaTags: reading happiness literature readers
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.
Arnold BennettTags: reading introspection
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in.
So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.
Tags: reading books escapism escape
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