Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know....
Tag: reading
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Sit in a room and read–and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time....
Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in....
Louis L’Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you....
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and...
Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire...
Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important....
Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading....
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of...
Sherman Alexie, Flight
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?...
