...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.
Jo BakerThe text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
J. Norman CollieTags: science reading learning how questions why wonder curiosity discovery explorer scientist textbook mountaineer
At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts
William StyronTags: reading facts depression concentration depressed vacuum
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
Lemony SnicketTags: reading authors strangers
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
AberjhaniTags: reading books philosophy authors albert-camus famous-authors aberjhani-on-albert-camus albert-camus-100th-birthday celebrity-birthdays french-algerian-authors literary-genius nobel-laureates nobel-prize-in-literature
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Helen KellerTags: words reading books literature
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
Henry David ThoreauTags: words reading books knowledge nature literature perfection
Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.
Zhu Xiao-MeiTags: reading music distress stress-relief
She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because what if they were right, and because sometimes a great loneliness welled up in her and threatened all the dams she built to hold it back. You couldn't cure loneliness by wallowing in it, up above the world, on an island removed from everything. She knew that. But she had such a hard time with all the cures. They seemed rough and brusque and brutal, as if they abused her skin with a pot scrubber . . . forcing herself into a mass of people, a stranger among strangers. . . . But it was much more tempting to curl up with a book under her thick white comforter.
Still, sometimes after she curled up, she regretted her lack of courage and felt bleakly lonely.
It was important to have a really good book.
Tags: reading loneliness cowardice good-books shyness homebodies
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.
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