#reading

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#reading #writing #work

A half-read book is like a half-finished love affair. ↗

— David Mitchell

#reading #love

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#books #reading #age

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ↗

— Harper Lee

#reading #love

I eat stories instead of bread or rice. I usually eat books, but I love handwriting best. Love stories are sugary, so I like those even better. So you better write me a suuuuper yummy story. ↗

— Mizuki Nomura

#love

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. ↗

— Judith Butler

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Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#reading #art

I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#marriage-husbands #marriage

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book. ↗

— Gabriel Bá

#reading #life