Tag: reading

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly....

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor....

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances,...

You can’t just skip the boring parts.””Of course I can skip the boring parts.””How do you know they’re boring if you don’t read them?””I can tell.””Then you can’t say you’ve read the whole play.””I think I can live a happy life,...

Anyway—because we are readers, we don’t have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of...

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much....

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on....

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much....

There’s a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day....

Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading....