--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.
Tag: reading books sex literacy entertainment class working-class classes
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark TwainTag: reading
أَلا بوركت اللغة البشرية, فما أَوسعها على آلذينَ يسمعون ويقرأُون أَكثر من الحرف وتبًّا لها ما أَضيقها على الذين لا يقرأُون منها ولايسمعون غير الحرف.
Mikhail NaimyTag: reading read language اللغة
Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.
Betsy HearneTag: reading children children-s-literature
If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.
Neil GaimanTag: reading writing inspiration
You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
“I’m not really a book person.”
“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me
Tag: reading booklovers
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
Steven SpielbergWe are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
M.H. AbramsTag: reading humanity literature fascination
Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.
Sylvia L'NamiraTag: reading books writing read movies writer writing-process
If you don't write, then read.
Sylvia L'NamiraTag: reading writing read book writer
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