Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
W. Somerset MaughamMots clés words reading books literature
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
Mots clés words books poetry literature
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni MorrisonMots clés art literature black sociology african-american
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
Annie DillardMots clés words reading books literature
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La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMots clés literature
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés technology literature misrepresentation
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
Mots clés words reading books peace literature rest
Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.
Lenora ChampagneMots clés literature
After all, tomorrow is another day!
Margaret MitchellMots clés life classic literature
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
Marcel ProustMots clés literature within-a-budding-grove
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