Reading! Quotes
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.
My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.
Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mindThe memory of dreadful thingsRushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked before each man, And terror crept behind.
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.
During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
