#reading

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

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There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. ↗

— Frank Serafini

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I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others. ↗

— Christian Marotti

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Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! ↗

— J.C. McClean

#life #reading #soul #writing #inspirational

Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book. ↗

— Mary Sisney

#inspirational #reading #writing #humor

Personally, I like books that make you think – books you’re still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say “Read this, so we can talk about it”. I suppose I’m just writing the kind of novel I like to read ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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