#reading

و عندما تحس و أنت تقرأ بمثل حركة الرادار، فقف.. إن عقلك قد وجد نفسه هنا.. و إنك الآن أمام كلمة أو عبارة تحمل لك فيضاً من الأسرار و الأفكار، إذا أنت تدبرتها و نحيّت الكتاب جانباً لتتأمل هذه العبارة التي اهتز لها وجدانك ، واختلج عقلك.. لا تهمل هذه الومضات التي تواتيك و أنت تقرأ .. فإنها مفاتيح كنوز جليلة.. عندما تبلغ عبارة تمس روحك مس الكهرباء ، و تحس فيها شيئاً يستوقفك و يبهرك، فنح الكتاب قليلاً ، و أصغ لما توحيه إليك، و فكر فيها. ستفتح بصيرتك إلى عالم من الأفكار جديد.. و هذه مزية القراءة. فنحن لا نقرأ لنزيد معلوماتنا، و ننمي معارفنا فحسب، بل نقرأ لأن القراءة تلهمنا، و تطل بنا إلى أفكار عذراء تنتظرنا لنكشفها و نضيفها إلى تراث الفكر الإنساني. ↗

— خالد محمد خالد

#reading #inspirational

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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She was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her neighbours never forgot to mention, in describing her, the awe-inspiring fact that she 'took in the English Times and the Saturday Review, and read every word of them,' but it was hinted that the bookshelves that her own capable hands had put up in her bedroom held a large proportion of works of fiction of a startlingly advanced kind, 'and,' it was generally added in tones of mystery, 'many of them French. ↗

— E.Œ. Somerville

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Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life? --J ↗

— Lauren Morrill

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That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#reading #faith

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#reading #family

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#good #how #interpret #know #read

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature. ↗

— Washington Irving

#literature #reading #food