It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. LewisNo two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund WilsonTag: reading books perspective
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: words reading books literature
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward BeecherTag: reading book-lover
Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Tag: reading
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.
Roland BarthesTag: reading
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I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
Gary PaulsenI think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
Ann M. MartinTag: reading
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
Gertrude SteinBooks can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
Helen ExleyTag: life reading books inspiration change thought-provoking
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