#reading

For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up. ↗

— Diane Schoemperlen

#faith

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words. ↗

— Donalyn Miller

#reading #sharing-books #love

حينما لا تملك القدرة على المكوث بزمن الجهل والإنحطاط ! وحينما يصعب عليك أن تقف في مسرح الحياة كالشيطان الأخرس العاجز عن التفوه بكلمة الحق ، وحينما تختلف بمبادئك عنهم ! وحينما يغفو الضمير بداخلهم .. بل قد يكون في سبات عميق أبداً لا يفيق بينما ضميرك أنت ! حي أينما كنت .. بينما ضميرك يعجز أن يأخذ قيلولته بعيداً عن عقلك ، بعيداً عن نفسك ، بعيداً عن نبضك ! عندها تكون ياعزيزي أقرب إلى الجنون ، ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#reading #feeling

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. Because of them I rode with Don Quixote and danced with Anna Karenina at a ball in St. Petersburg and lassoed a steer in "Lonesome Dove" and had nightmares about slavery in "Beloved" and walked the streets of Dublin in "Ulysses" and made up a hundred stories in the Arabian nights and saw my mother killed by a baseball in "A Prayer for Owen Meany." I've been in ten thousand cities and have introduced myself to a hundred thousand strangers in my exuberant reading career, all because I listened to my fabulous English teachers and soaked up every single thing those magnificent men and women had to give. I cherish and praise them and thank them for finding me when I was a boy and presenting me with the precious gift of the English language. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#english #literature #reading #teachers #beauty

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. ↗

— David Mitchell

#escape #reading #real

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. ↗

— Peter S. Jennison

#censorship #education #illiteracy #reading #education

The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth.  But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #emotion #feelings #reading #richelle

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#books #dreams #heroes #imagination #reading

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness. ↗

— Tim Gillespie

#literature #reading #dreams