reading

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

That was what her parents did not understand__nd had never understood__bout stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

You don__ read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds.

I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.