#reading

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."

"I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."

"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow"

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

"I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."

"لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا."

"I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level."

"A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

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

"I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

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