--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.

Amor Towles

Mots clés reading books sex literacy entertainment class working-class classes

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

Mots clés reading

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أَلا بوركت اللغة البشرية, فما أَوسعها على آلذينَ يسمعون ويقرأُون أَكثر من الحرف وتبًّا لها ما أَضيقها على الذين لا يقرأُون منها ولايسمعون غير الحرف.

Mikhail Naimy

Mots clés reading read language اللغة

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Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.

Betsy Hearne

Mots clés reading children children-s-literature

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If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Neil Gaiman

Mots clés reading writing inspiration

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You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
“I’m not really a book person.”
“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

Rainbow Rowell

Mots clés reading booklovers

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Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Steven Spielberg

Mots clés reading education

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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

M.H. Abrams

Mots clés reading humanity literature fascination

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Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Sylvia L'Namira

Mots clés reading books writing read movies writer writing-process

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If you don't write, then read.

Sylvia L'Namira

Mots clés reading writing read book writer

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