#ding

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ↗

— Diane Duane

#reading #want

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

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. ↗

— Richmal Crompton

#libraries #reading #time #to-do-list #family

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#chosen #destruction #his #hussein #mass