I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people, with that metaphysical absurdity known as “flesh and blood.” In fact “flesh and blood” describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive, the sirloin steaks and cutlets of Fate.
Fernando PessoaTag: words friends reading books people literature
Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'.
"To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.
Tag: reading book moby-dick english
We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn’t just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves—has allowed us to be “sub-creators,” as J. R. R. Tolkien says--we may rightly take delight in the things that we (and others) make. Reading for the sheer delight of it—reading at whim—is therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is.
Alan JacobsTag: reading
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish.
S.I. HayakawaSome books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.
A.W. TozerTag: reading books exhaustion
Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?
Lauren MorrillTag: reading books people bookworms
I need to experience books, not just read them.
Lauren MorrillYou only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded, so you are willing to argue, to overcome and be overcome, and grow richer by what you have learned, not only in the book, but in life, or by being able to make something of your work.
Sándor MáraiTag: words reading books literature
Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.
Karen WitemeyerA lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation.
Tony ReinkeTag: reading
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