reading

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they__e standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language too, the first language, and I had dominion over the nature of all that was real. In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick og everything. In my dreams I have used that language to heal the sick and to fly; once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed-and-breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole.' and they would become whole, not be broken people , not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers_ most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people_ all the more insidious and insincere.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

My books, my paradise!

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.