#ding

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ↗

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reading #we-are-what-we-eat #we-are-what-we-read #you-are-what-you-eat #you-are-what-you-read

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#reading #rights #right

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. ↗

— Maureen Corrigan

#people #reading #alone

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#reading #truth #read

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#old-books #reading #read

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me. ↗