#read

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S.I. Hayakawa

#life

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life? --J ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#life

It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#life #not-ready-to-die #life

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#life

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#kelsey #reading #the-thing-about-the-truth #life

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#life

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me. ↗

— Abbas Al-Akkad

#life #read #life

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125 ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#literature #reading #life

Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby. ↗

— Franz McLaren

#ereader #kindle #life