#read

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#did #i #jack #just #noticed

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#read #life

A good book is an event in my life. ↗

— Stendhal

#literature #reading #life

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#read #life

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#reading #life

My life is a reading list. ↗

— John Irving

#reading #life

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#reading #life

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#reading #life

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#life