Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.
Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each pas...
If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanatio...
He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.
It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because...
Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.
Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
To read is to truly escape from oneself
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.
After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.
Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.
Instead, I read books in the library, huddling on a bean bag in a corner and getting lost in somebody else's victories and troubles. I never had much time for fiction before. I preferred real life. Ma...
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