reading-books

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

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 life spent reading would have suited me best.

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover__ besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls __he mad pride of intellectuality,_ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

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

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Why do you want to read anyway _ for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn__ make you peaceful, what good is it?

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn__ achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who__ reading aloud__t__ the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn__ make you peaceful, what good is it?

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural course. Like a river, print flowed to its readers, and the cheapness of the means permitted it, where the channel was narrow, to trickle. This electronic flood you describe has no banks; it massively delivers but what to whom? There is something intrinsically small about its content, compared to the genius of its working. And--if I may point out a technical problem--its product never achieves autonomy from its means of delivery. A book can lie unread for a century, and all it needs to come to life is to be scanned by a literate brain.

You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.