This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.
Rebecca SolnitTags: reading books writing writers readers 54
I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.
Amit KalantriTags: inspirational success reading books inspiration philosophy inspirational-quotes read book reading-books reading-habits philosophy-quotes
If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.
Murray PuraTags: reading books winter good-things
The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
Roland BarthesTags: reading
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
Shannon CelebiTags: reading writing writers writing-craft read writing-advice writer reading-books writing-life writing-process writing-process-writing-advice
Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but - no, Pete was healthy enough physically. Manoel growled that the boy was bone-lazy, spending his time fishing and reading. Reading! No good could come of such things.
'In a way you're right, Manoel,' Dr. Manning said hesitantly. 'It's natural for a boy to day-dream now and then, but I think Pedro does it too much. I've let him use my library whenever he wanted, but it seems... h'm... it seems he reads the wrong things. Fairy tales are very charming, but they don't help a boy to cope with real life.'
'Com certeza,' Manoel agreed. 'You mean he has crazy ideas in the head.'
'Oh, they're rather nice ideas,' Dr. Manning said. 'But they're only fairy tales, and they're beginning to seem true to Pete. You see, Manoel, there are really two worlds, the real one, and the one you make up inside your mind. Sometimes a boy - or even a man - gets to like his dream world so much he just forgets about the real one and lives in the one he's made up.'
'I know,' Manoel said. 'I have seen some who do that. It is a bad thing.'
'It would be bad for Pete. He's a very sensitive boy. If you live too much in dreams, you can't face real life squarely.'
("Before I Wake...")
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How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers like you with a weekly lineup of talented authors, poets, and artists that we believe you will love. And if we can identify some of the next generation of literary stars, and cultivate an appreciation for transformative poetry and fiction, then frankly we will sleep better at night.
Carmen JohnsonTags: reading poetry writers authors day-one
Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.
Sylvain TessonTags: reading meditation anxiety
I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book
Sylvain TessonWhat is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
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