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...
There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.
Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.
Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore
There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
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...
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
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.
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters...
Books fall open, you fall in
Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.
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...
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.
Live to read.Read for life.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of...
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