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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. ↗


— Jasper Fforde


#reading #read

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not. ↗


— Nick Hornby


#identity #individuality #read

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. ↗


— Terry Pratchett


#bookstore #discworld #read #reading #read

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗


— Joseph Brodsky


#censorship #illiteracy #reading #read

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗


— John Gardner


#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ↗


— Roman Payne


#europe #fortune #fortunes #gypsies #gypsy

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ↗


— George Carlin


#children-s-literature #literature

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book. ↗


— Al Pacino


#literature #reading #literature

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. ↗


— Daphne du Maurier


#fiction #memory

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk. ↗


— James D. Sass


#noremorse #read #reading #satan






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