reading-quotes

Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards.

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

We are not __ensored_ in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To see an image is to react. What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a __ike_ button? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners?

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don__ just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something _ distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world _ but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refined precision. A writer__ use of vivid language creates lingering aftereffects that work their wonder on the reader__ malleable mind. A stirred mind resurrects our semiconscious memories; it causes us to summon up enduring images of our family, friends, and acquaintances. Just as importantly, inspirational writing makes us recognize our own telling character traits and identify our formerly unexpressed thoughts and feelings.

Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors_ collective and collaborative minds at work.

I canâ__t get past one or two pages at a time.â__ â__hatâ__s how itâ__s supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of tea.

A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or __on compos mentis_ (__o power of the mind_) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.