Reading is dreaming with open eyes
YoYoTags: reading
Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!
Jackson PearceTags: humor reading books literacy
She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
Elizabeth von ArnimTags: words reading books mind literature
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
Alan BennettTags: reading equality why-read
Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Atwood H. TownsendTags: reading pleasure good-advice enjoyment book-lover-wisdom dnf reading-motivation
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?
John WatersTags: reading
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
Eudora WeltyTags: reading writing eudora-welty
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
Alain de BottonTags: reading humanity newspapers
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.
Jen KnoxTags: reading books psychology writing-process philosophy-of-life women-writers jen-knox after-the-gazebo
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: friend friendship reading books sharing
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