The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.
A word after a word after a word is power.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The world was hers for the reading.
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
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