#reading

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."

"Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name."

"Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it."

"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books."

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

"Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul,"he told them. "So we will start with these studies."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."

"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself."

"I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read."

"Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!"

"إحدى يديه كانت منهمكة بالعبث في خصلات شعريوالأخرى كان ينفث بها سيجارته ،إلتقطتها منه بغضب وبإمتعاض ممقوتوهمست له : دعها تلك اللعينة فلن أسمح بأن تشاركني فيك !"