#reading

I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#novels #reading #age

Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#age

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#application #reading #younger #age

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#actual #afforded #always #beloved #careful

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#chore #duty #gift #offered #presented

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' ↗

— Edie Falco

#great #great idea #i #idea #love

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#any #before #cut #director #easier

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#dead #lies #living #only #our

Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know. ↗

— Charles Freeman

#because #brainy #epistles #filled #hear