645 quotes found
“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your ...”
“The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.”
“Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incomplete...”
“Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.”
“Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.”
“A good reading strengthens the soul.”
“I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.”
“it's doesn't matter how long you spend the time writing words , the only thing that matter , is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader .”
“It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.”
“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day ...”
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
“No. I can survive well enough on my own if given the proper reading material.”
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell...”
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
“Take a good book to bed with youbooks do not snore.”
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
