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At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Reading is a bit like hallucinating.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.