The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E.M. ForsterTag: words reading books literature
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Marcel ProustTag: words reading books solitude literature
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
Alberto ManguelTag: words reading books literature
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraScience fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan SontagTag: reading books literature science-fiction sci-fi disaster
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
Jasper FfordeTag: reading
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Lemony SnicketI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel JohnsonTag: reading books writing conversation erudition
A word after a word after a word is power.
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