#reading

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman .... ↗

— Italo Calvino

#reading #dreams

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead. ↗

— Vince Vaughn

#book #fountainhead #i #last #life

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#being #book #days #gain #hours

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. ↗

— Susie Bright

#enormous #experience #finding #get #heard

إحدى يديه كانت منهمكة بالعبث في خصلات شعري والأخرى كان ينفث بها سيجارته ، إلتقطتها منه بغضب وبإمتعاض ممقوت وهمست له : دعها تلك اللعينة فلن أسمح بأن تشاركني فيك ! ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character. ↗

— Karl Urban

#character #comic #envisioned #i #never

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#different #reading #rules #talking #them