In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.
Robert Louis StevensonA person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.
Laura VázquezTag: reading
I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.
Amy Elizabeth SmithTag: humor reading literature
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.
Mohsin HamidTag: reading writing death stories childhood adulthood creation aging refugees
Fear is essential in horror fiction. Gore is optional.
Rayne HallTag: reading writing horror-fiction
You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.
Cassandra ClareTag: reading books reading-books will-herondale tessa-gray
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
Tahereh MafiTag: life reading books book-lover book-quotes
I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the cinema with the sole aim of having their mind expanded – entertainment is a fine raison d'etre for films so why not books?
Catherine JonesTag: reading
Reading relaxes me.
Elizabeth NewtonTag: reading books school relaxation
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
Joe QueenanTag: reading books reading-books
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