[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...
Neil GaimanTags: libraries reading books library
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
Ray BradburyTags: reading writing philosophy censorship wit digression
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.
Pat MoraTags: reading
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.
Libba BrayTags: reading books libba-bray
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
Laurence SterneTags: reading writing censorship
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
MontesquieuTags: reading trouble stress-relief
The public library is where place and possibility meet.
Stuart DybekPerhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
Mary Ann ShafferTags: reading
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
Adrienne RichTags: reading on-writing
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
John AdamsTags: reading education lifelong-learning
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