#reading

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."

"It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in."

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."

"We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."

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

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

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."

"بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن زرت أوطاني يوماً ولمحت نوافذ إنتظاري مغلقةوأبواب فقدي لك مؤصدة ،بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن إحتفلوا بيوم ميلادك وبحثت عن صوتي بينهم ..ولم تجده ؟ وبحثت عن هداياي من بين هداياهم ولم تصلك"

"Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore."

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

"My life is a reading list."

"if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"La lectura, asegura, ampliaría mi experiencia del mundo. Las ideas que se encuentran en los libros serios darían profundidad a mis pensamientos sobre cada decisión que tomo."

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

"Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes."

"I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction."

"I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page"