reading

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else?

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.

Nearly all our associations are determined by chance or necessity; and restricted within a narrow circle. We cannot know whom we would; and those whom we know, we cannot have at our side when we most need them. All the higher circles of human intelligence are, to those beneath, only momentarily and partially open... there is a society continually open to us, of people who will talk to us as long as we like, whatever our rank or occupation; _ talk to us in the best words they can choose, and of the things nearest their hearts. And this society, because it is so numerous and so gentle, and can be kept waiting around us all day long, _ kings and statesmen lingering patiently, not to grant audience, but to gain it! _ in those plainly furnished and narrow ante-rooms, our bookcase shelves, _ we make no account of that company, _ perhaps never listen to a word they would say, all day long!

Always remember, any book you haven__ read is still a new book.

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you__e read but where you are at.

It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.

Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

People experience books so very differently.

There is no other enjoyment like reading