The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the p...
There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
Never judge a book by its movie.
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not...
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
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.
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
A novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, tea...
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.
A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading
Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.
People should read more.
Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you m...
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