#reading

"I even love the smell of books."

"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."

"Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness."

"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

"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."

"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle."

"You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book."

"We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]"

"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 !"

"Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head."

"If I could convert books to wine, I’d start with The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve never read it, but maybe tonight I’ll be thirsty enough."

"My life is a reading list."

"Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach."

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

"Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions."

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

"I find Bukowski to be so edgy, gritty, and daring that he oozes romance, and if couples read him in bed they would appreciate what they have."

"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."