The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Isaac AsimovI sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
Julio CortázarThe more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
Julio CortázarThe use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
Ursula K. Le Guin(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill with her own ideas until she was fed up with patching up the makeshift constructs.
Gerhard AmanshauserTags: reading
The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
Adolf HitlerShe didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Zora Neale HurstonTags: life reading books understanding
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
Michel FoucaultTags: imagination reading books fantasy fantastic
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.
Walter MosleyTags: reading fiction understanding short-story
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
Stephen ChboskyTags: reading funny television friday
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