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dbd3681 A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. reading reading-books readers George R.R. Martin
0cf8fc0 "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." reading tessa-gray will-herondale reading-books Cassandra Clare
f4fd986 Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. reading inspirational readers-and-writers reasons-for-reading reading-books readers Alberto Manguel
67a8b63 When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it. reading reading-books Dodie Smith
7dd99e1 She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. majors reading-books Jeffrey Eugenides
5c01ba7 A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. reading friends learning sharing-books sharing reading-books Henry Miller
f4c8d89 Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. reading long-book overpraising reviewing praise reading-books exaggeration E.M. Forster
e80ec1f Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower reading-books read Stephen Chbosky
797069a Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences. john-piper reading-books John Piper
d9be0ed Books fall open, you fall in books inspirational reading-books David McCord
f9ce1df Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing. writing reading-books Stephen King
94b1d9b Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done. finishing reading-books resonance Jonathan Carroll
94d5168 When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you've ever read. What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever? reading-books Audrey Niffenegger
0738238 We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it. reading journeys reading-books Lynne Truss
abeea60 And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss. reading-books Libba Bray
5adf2e7 ...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. myth reading-books novels Karen Armstrong
dee4d97 I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters. reading-books Anne Fadiman
11f7d05 "You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman." "Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them." television reading sleep-walking tv reading-books read radio Ray Bradbury
82075a1 Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her. reading reading-books Cornelia Funke
04cc68b Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. solitude library literature reading books bookish irvine-welsh skagboys zenith heroine reading-books read introversion introvert reader Irvine Welsh
22acbec They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke books-reading bookshops reading-books Jen Campbell
41be089 Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. reading reading-habits reading-books Mark Helprin
bc18244 Literacy: Blessing? Or curse? reading writing reading-books literacy Charles Frazier
a86f0ce I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself. reading happiness reading-books Mark Helprin
249074c "My interest in reading novels of various fiction was roused at a very early age. And the thought-provoking storylines of the great Donald Goines had been included in my very first library collection. ("Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1," 2018)" reading cat-ellington donald-goines reviews-by-cat-ellington reading-books quotes Cat Ellington
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