#reading

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer. ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#meaning-of-life #reading #life

Read. You can always talk with another reader. ↗

— Rorke Denver

#life-lessons #reading #life

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#britain #life #reading #school #life

Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life. ↗

— Sofia Kennedy

#writing #life

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority. ↗

— Wil Zeus

#honesty #honor #inspirational #integrity #life-lesson

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#reading #love

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#ease #easy #hard #reading #show

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#fulfilling #home #however #intended #never

Hard writing makes easy reading. ↗