On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.
He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.
No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.
Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you’re functionally illiterate.
I only read books with words on the pages. I'm picky like that.
Open the book and read it to renew your mind.
Read until you can read.
The first book a child should be taught how to read is the Holy Scriptures.
Read, read.
A man can be rich as long as he reads.
If you stop learning, you forget what you ready know.
How could you renew your mind, if you never read?
You can only learn to read by reading.
What you read renew your mind.
Daily reading is vital for own self development.
The act of reading is skill that can be cultivated.
