#read

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. ↗

— Tracy Chevalier

#drowsiness #insomnia #reading #sleepy #winning

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#education #reading #education

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#reading #attention

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ↗

— Joan Didion

#storytelling #storytelling

Many times it happens we live our life in chains and we never even know we have the key. ↗

— The Eagles

#chains #eagles #music #musicians #music

Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with. ↗

— Jan Surasky

#change

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ↗

— Emilie Buchwald

#parenting #reading #parenting

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#child #children #parents #reading #parenting

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#get #get married #great #i #like