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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it.


Philip Pullman


#children #learning #maturity #reading #age

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a knew source." (...) "But you love books, then", Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they're the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a thing to say at your age", she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.


Anne Rice


#knowledge #reading #age

Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of wells and builders of houses—readers are travellers; they move across lands belonging to someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write, despoiling the wealth of Egypt to enjoy it themselves.


Michel De Certeau


#writing #age

Are your friends as good as MY friends? I can discern the nod of of assent but doubt it. My own friends are far better, they are famous people and they are all dead. Who, you may ask, are those friends of mine, and why are they dead? It is a fair question. They are dead because, had they lived, they would have died anyway from extreme old age and decrepitude.


Flann O'Brien


#age

Find a quiet place, and just read. If you’re reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader. Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.


Leo Babauta


#age

Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.


Neil Postman


#writing #age

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.


Jen Knox


#jen-knox #musical-chairs #philosophy #psychology #reading

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.


Daniel T. O'Hara


#badness #books #reading #anger

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#arts #arts-and-humanities #book #books #culture

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then—click—a world opens.


Brad Kessler


#art






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