#reading

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#library #reading #life

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#reading #love

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#bibliophiles #books #reader #reading #love

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#caught #get #i #music #reading

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reading #self-help #self-improvement #dating

Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier. ↗

— Elizabeth Nelson

#romantic

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#classics #reading #classics