#reading

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

"God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon."

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone."

"We become the books we read."

"Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time."

"A good book is an event in my life."

"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)"

"A good reading strengthens the soul."

"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."

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

"My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy."

"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."

"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."

"I read in self-defense."

"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!"

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."

"There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature."

"I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own."

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."