#reading

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ↗

— Mary Archer

#balance sheets #extraordinary #fact #fascinating #make

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#barbarity #bit #humanity #into #novels

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#change

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#reading-habits #age

My shelf of books! I love them so! They take me where I want to go. Adventure, deeds of every age, Lie captured on the printed page; Through them I hear the swish of seas, The wind in lofty mountain trees; Their magic brings before my gaze Heroes of stirring, ancient days. Here in my chair, through day or night, They lend me wings for daring flight. I love my shelf of books, they are Pathways to sun...and moon... and star. ↗

— Katherine Edelman

#reading #age

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#ballplayer #bit #even #eyes #gave

WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#old-age #reading #age

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#youth #age

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#children #learning #maturity #reading #age

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a knew source." (...) "But you love books, then", Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they're the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a thing to say at your age", she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#knowledge #reading #age