#read

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#reading #expression

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#proofreading #poem

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#fashion

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ↗

— Roman Payne

#europe #fortune #fortunes #gypsies #gypsy

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. ↗

— Jonathan Ames

#literature #reading #literature

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#literature

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book. ↗

— Al Pacino

#literature #reading #literature

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. ↗

— John Keats

#shakespeare #shakespeare

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk. ↗

— James D. Sass

#noremorse #read #reading #satan

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ↗

— Joan Didion

#storytelling #storytelling