#reading

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. ↗

— Paul Auster

#choice #comfort #comsolation #escape #pleasure

…and soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#reading #stories #beauty

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#beauty

Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end. ↗

— Peter Davis

#beauty

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#biography #child #fiction #historical #history

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments. ↗

— Jim Evans

#cues #early #enough #making #missed

Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#entertaining #guests #light #lot #needs

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. ↗

— John Sladek

#influence #moment #reading #seems #whatever

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened