We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.
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Put your hands on my knees, she said, and think of me as a book you’ve been dying to read.
But the pleasant thing is to wake early, throw open the window, and lie reading in bed.
People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
I've been thinking lately that one of the things long-form narratives like novels do is they help us to arrange lots of information into a story, right? Because it's much easier to remember things in a narrative than it is to remember random dislocated facts.
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likable characters with whom you can have some simple identification. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make your brain go all like ahbd…
Unplug and read every day. You stop at least three times a day to eat. Stop at least once a day to read.
A bookshelf is a biography written by others.
The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent; the job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves.
Reading with an eye toward metaphor allows us to become the person we're reading about while reading about them.
When we read, you are with you.
Commuovere (Italian): To be moved in a heartwarming way, usually relating to a story that moved you to tears
The tingle in the spine really tells you what the author felt and wished you to feel.
If you’re an old soul, you don’t fool around with e-readers. In fact, you’re probably one of the few that still visits the library on the regular.
They read constantly. Interesting digital articles are nice, but for them, nothing is better than cracking open a brand new, actual book.
You don’t need to understand the details of the message; it’s enough to get the gist of it by seeing which words it contains.
In the age of algorithms and social media, can we create an enclave where creative and intellectual sophistication still matter?
Nevertheless, there is important work to be done in philosophy, journalism, biography, and other genres that may never be bestsellers but are just as important to society. Such stories are like elegant math problems that, while not applicable to a wide audience, are still useful to those who know ho…