#read

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. ↗

— M.R. Mathias

#m-r-mathias #michael-robb #profound-realizations #quotes-that-make-sense #reader

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#reading #love

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#reading #sexy #smell #wonderful #love

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50. ↗

— Gladys Hunt

#inspirational #reading #age

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#reading #war #humor

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#humor #life #philosophy #reading #humor

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #criticism #humor #interpretation #literature

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #music #musicians #reading #humor

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning-to-read #richard-feynmann #sense-of-humor #studying #understand

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#reading #life