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Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! Fay Weldon
Jane Austen quote: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How..."
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! Jane Austen
Three hand-painted signs had been tacked to a broken-down gate. The first read, THE QUIBBLER. EDITOR: X. LOVEGOODThe second, PICK YOUR OWN MISTLETOEThe third, KEEP OFF THE DIRIGIBLE PLUMS J. K. Rowling
Truman Capote quote: "A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."..."
A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick." -Holly Golightly Truman Capote
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts."..."
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. Ursula K. Le Guin
Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?'" He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. "Is today the day I did?" he said. Mitch Albom
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect? he read it to his friends. Mikhail Lermontov
Aldous Huxley quote: "... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking."
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did John Fowles
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. Jorge Luis Borges
Albert Einstein quote: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy..."
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales... Albert Einstein
C. S. Lewis quote: "If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall..."
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. C. S. Lewis
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful... Jeanette Winterson
Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime. Arthur Conan Doyle
Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature of a nation, on the other hand, is spun out of its heart. If you would know Ireland - body and soul - you must read its poems and stories. They came into existence to please nobody but the people of Ireland. Government did not make them on the one hand, nor bad seasons on the other. They are Ireland talking to herself. William Butler Yeats

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