reading-books

I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

I highly recommend re-reading good personal development books. Rarely can we read a book once and internalized all of the value from that book. Achieving mastery in any area requires repetition__eing exposed to certain ideas, strategies, or techniques over and over again, until they become ingrained in your subconscious mind.

I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.