#reading

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reading #age

By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure stories. This was before I’d read Isak Dinesen and Mikhail Bulgakov, before Ernest Hemingway and T. Coraghessan Boyle, before I’d read something and really felt it, when writing was still just a compulsion, and my teen-age brain was only bordering on sentience. I filled pages of white space with swashbuckling, rapier-wielding, sidekick-sacrificing, dragon-baiting romance. (from 'High-School Confidential' in the The New Yorker.) ↗

— Téa Obreht

#writing #age

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. ↗

— John Waters

#reading #life

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#feel #fourth #go #grade #had

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#book #cry #joke #our #phone

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#found #good #holy #make #many

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#reading #strange

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#knowledge #reading #life