Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses
Tag: reading books death library
I won't be sad too often,
If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.
Tag: reading books death library
[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.
Paul AusterTag: reading books passion literature bookworm
Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis BorgesTag: reading intellectualism
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman ....
Italo CalvinoBooks are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
Beverly LewisTag: words friends reading books
This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content.
Beverly LewisGetting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...].
Arlaina TibenskyTag: reading books characters emotions and-then-things-fell-apart
Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.
Arlaina TibenskyTag: reading books and-then-things-fell-apart
Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.
Jeffrey MichaelTag: reading living addiction breathing
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