reading-books

106When I don__ have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don__ have a book, there is nowhere good or interesting to be, there is nobody to care about, nothing to hope for, and nothing to puzzle over. When I do have something to read, it keeps me breathing. It__ the reward for all the other things. It__ the thing to look forward to, the reason for doing my day._ p. 177, Dime

Read the best books first, otherwise you__l find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.

Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?

What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it will reveal another layer, previously overlooked themes, images, and meanings. For within every great book there are several others.

Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek.

I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream.

Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

I cannot call somebody __ard-working_ knowing only that they read and write. Even if __ll night long_ is added, I cannot say it _ not until I know the focus of all this energy.

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.