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“A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or non compos mentis (no power of the mind) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determin...”
“Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.”
“When I want somebody to read to, To match a dream with tuneful phrase,It is my nurse that I pay heed to,Companion of my youthful days,Or, following a boring dinner,A neihbour comes in, who I corner...”
“You know the people," said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.”
“I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked. I did not care how a story was written....”
“I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not unlike a book - a compilation of pages that overlap without two ever being the same. People op...”
“Reading is almost always subversive. From the time you read the next night's fairy tale under the covers by flashlight when you have already had your bedtime story from Daddy and are supposed to be...”
“Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.”
“His reading aloud was constantly improving, and histories were more like radio plays. Perdu suspected that these small children, listening with eyes wide and in rapt concentration, would one day gr...”
“There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.”
“[A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves wit...”
“Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.”
“The look you get when youre reading in your van, and your feet are up and you sit so still, and your face is alight, and I dont know where you are; you could be anywhere, so far away, off in a part...”
“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the t...”
“She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isnt time for anything else.”
“I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappear...”
“The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words”
“We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.”
“You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as love...”
