#read

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#secret

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. ↗

— John Green

#literature #reading #words #acting

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. ↗

— John Green

#power-of-words #reading #words

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#words #writing #words

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #teaching

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#advice #either #else #give #kind

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#children-s-books #reading #story

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#reading #action

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#character #characters #ideas #impact #reading

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #story