#ding

A half-read book is like a half-finished love affair. ↗

— David Mitchell

#reading #love

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#narrative #poetry #reading-books #writers #love

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#books #reading #age

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ↗

— Harper Lee

#reading #love

He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the greatest pain, the greatest happiness is born: the hope that we too will one day be understood, strangers will accept our words, our lives, as if they were their own. ↗

— Dezső Kosztolányi

#understanding #life

And as angry as I am with what you have put me through, I am so very glad that we are now at this moment. This moment means I can move on to bigger and better things without you constantly weighing on my shoulders. I will never again turn a corner in New York terrified that I will run into you and even more terrified that I won't. I can go into any coffee shop I want. I can hope for love again. ↗

— K.A. Linde

#love

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#men

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. ↗

— Christine de Pisan

#just #men #sharper #softer #than

Warning: This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art that was once called reading. It is a simple adjustment and there will be no negative or harmful effects from this process. What you are doing: "Reading" Explained Each sheet is indelibly printed with information and the sheets are visually scanned from left to right, and from top to bottom. This scanned information is passed through the visual cortex directly into the brain, where it can then be accessed just like any other data. ↗

— Mike A. Lancaster

#information #reading #art

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#trading #men