#reading

"If you love books enough, books will love you back."

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

"When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown."

"A good reading strengthens the soul."

"I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days."

"I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all."

"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."

"I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites."

"A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!"

"Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well."

"The world belongs to those who read."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]"

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

"You're either reading a book or you're not."

"But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free."

"You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."