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“Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the readers soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.”
“It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.”
“Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.”
“Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching C...”
“A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.”
“There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.”
“Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.”
“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.”
“When you read," the man whispered, "you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.”
“I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be read sitting halfway up the stairs, where the light through a stained-glass l...”
“Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred fl...”
“In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a river”
“I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.”
“If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.”
“But one day he said to me:Ive got it now. Its reading isnt it?Im sorry?You read a lot, dont you? Thats where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.The next time I saw him he had a Herman Hesse ...”
“This is what is behind the special relationship between tale and travel, and, perhaps, the reason why narrative writing is so closely bound up with walking. To write is to carve a new path through ...”
“Having had this kind of binge reading relationship with online content for 15 years we're starting to think 'Hang on, we only have finite time and there is infinite content'.”
“I wasn't discriminating in my reading, and I'm still not. I read then primarily to be entertained, as I do now. And I'm not saying that apologetically: I feel that if you remove the initial gut res...”
“Arriving back home, I didnt start to read it. I pretended I didnt have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again,...”
“But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's...”
