#reading

"A good reading strengthens the soul."

"Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"

"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."

"I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs."

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

"Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!"

"Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being."

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."

"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."

"And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun."

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

"* نجلاء .. نجلااااء ...نجلااااااااء ... .- الساعة الآن التاسعة صباحاً إنهضيوإنفضي عن وسادتكِ رذاذ الأحلام ،كان هذا صوتها أمي لتفيقني من ذاكالحلم الذي كنت أهذي به كل ليلة !تمنيت حينها لو أصيبت ذاكرتي بغيبوبة عنواقع لا يحتويه ،عن واقع لا يعانق وجوده !أفقت وكعادتي أمضي إلى طريق مجهولومسافات غريبة أحمل حقائب أحلاميوأجمع بها لوحاتي وأمل أتسكع بهعلى دهاليز مدينتي الباريسية !"

"Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets."

"They're book addicts."

"If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."

"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."

"People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again."

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"The problem with books is that they end."

"Dominate in your domain; You can do it."