He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.
Neil GaimanI was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in the way that some boys knew how engines worked.
Jeanette WintersonReading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. Emily Dickinson barely left her homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts, but when we read 'My life stood -- a loaded gun' we know we have met an imagination that will detonate life, not decorate it.
Jeanette WintersonTags: reading emily-dickinson
Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.
Jordan UrtsoTags: life reading read live-in-the-moment chapter reading-books
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
Clive ThompsonTags: reading quotations serendipity
Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.
Ela CrainTags: reading
There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
Dani HarperTags: words reading writing reader writer create
I suck the words word-dry
to me, assimilated
orderly at breakeye speed
still hard and harder
softer then
line-lined book-dry
‘til not a drop
of water-blood
from oak and elm
and authored men
is left to whisper
“Read…
Tags: reading writing creativity writing-life writing-process on-being-a-rat poetry-about-writing
If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.
Chila WoychikTags: reading books writing writing-life reading-for-life on-being-a-rat wonder-of-books
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer.
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