#reading

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#any #conversation #dialogue #end #feel

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book. ↗

— Robert Goolrick

#reading #love

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#reading #love

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#humor #reading #humor

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#humor #reading #humor

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #reading #tea #inspirational

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#committed #ever #good #good book #many