#reading

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. ↗

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#literature #reading #travel

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#reading #trust

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. ↗

— William Faulkner

#writing #work

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#reading #writing #work

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#books #fiction #read #reading #stories

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#people

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#chance

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ↗