#reading

"What is reading but silent conversation."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything."

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

"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."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like."

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

"The function of a book is to provide a reading experience."

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

"Literature is my Utopia"

"It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book."

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself."

"An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me..."

"I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow."

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

"If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment."