#reading

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. ↗

— Tom Spanbauer

#books #life-of-the-mind #literature #reading #life

We learned about life from the books they told us not to read. ↗

— Antoinette Ingoldsby

#reading #life

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser...I was the girl who loved everything geeky. ↗

— Jeff Sampson

#geek #introvert #reading #love

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#reading #love

This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there. They could bring their somethings to a text, as co-creators, embedding a needed reality in the story that, if it was flexible enough, would allow new threads to take their place beside the author’s. ↗

— L.L. Barkat

#reading #writers #writing #love

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #exist #existence #money #nonexistence

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you’re not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else? ↗

— Theodora Goss

#blog-post #books #reading #writing #money

Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His father has brought him up as a dodo. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#children #reading #movies

Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#feeling #reading #movies

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#reading #music