#read

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . . ↗

— Betty Smith

#reading #flowers

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #reading #childhood

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#reading #love

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#society

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. ↗

— John Waters

#reading #commitment

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#reading #feeling

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#reading #career

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#alone

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#magic #magic-books #read

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#read