Quotes About Reading

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that. "Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath famously asked.

Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can't speak, we can write. When we can't write, we can read. When we can't read, we can listen. Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.

A book is a map .... There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. ... The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

So often, reading is seen as important because of its social value. It is tied to education and the economy and so on. But that misses the whole point of reading. Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given. It is how humans merge; how minds connect. Dreams, empathy, understanding, escape.

Reading is love in action.

Kurt Vonnegut was right. "Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you," wrote Angelou. Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can't speak, we can write. When we can't write, we can read. When we can't read, we can listen. Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer

Existe la idea de que uno lee para escapar o para encontrarse a sí mismo. En realidad, yo no veo la diferencia. Nos encontramos a nosotros mismos a través del proceso de escapar. No se trata de dónde estamos, sino de adónde queremos ir.

Me sentaba a la luz de la mesita de noche para leer durante unas dos horas después de que Andrea se hubiera dormido, hasta que los ojos se me secaban y dolían, siempre buscando y sin encontrar nunca nada, pero con esa sensación de tenerlo casi al alcance de la mano.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilization has become a little safer.

I picked up these books and realised they both said '£8.99' on the back. The interpolation of the entire language I had done with the aid of Cosmopolitan meant I knew this was the price of the books, but I did not have any money. So I waited until no one was looking (a long time) and then I ran very fast out of the shop. I eventually settled into a walk, as running without clothes is not entirely compatible with external testicles, and then I started to read.

Leggere] – è importante perché fornisce uno spazio per esistere al di là della realtà che ci è data. È così che gli esseri umani si fondono. Le menti si collegano. Grazie ai sogni. All'empatia. Alla comprensione. Alla possibilità di fuga. Leggere è amore in azione.

Nu conteaza ce cisteati, ci cum citesti. Povestitorul poate incepe o poveste, dar are nevoie de un cititor pentru ca ea sa prinda viata, iar asta nu se va intampla niciodata la fel.[...] Tot ce poate face scriitorul e sa ofere fitilul, de preferat uscat. Cititorul trebuie sa aprinda flacara.

I needed books. They weren't a luxury good during that time in my life. They were a Class A addictive substance.

There were surely lives where she was sitting beside a swimming pool in the sunshine right now. Lives where she was playing music, or lying in a warm lavender-scented bath, or having incredible third-date sex, or reading on a beach in Mexico, or eating in a Michelin-starred restaurant, or strolling the streets of Paris, or getting lost in Rome, or tranquilly gazing at a temple near Kyoto, or feeling the warm cocoon of a happy relationship.

For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socializing there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

I used to sit with the bedside lamp on, reading for about two hours after Andrea had gone to sleep, until my eyes were dry and sore, always seeking and never quite finding, but with that feeling of being tantalizingly close.

Lives where she was playing music, or lying in a warm lavender-scented bath, or having incredible third-date sex, or reading on a beach in Mexico, or eating in a Michelin-starred restaurant, or strolling the streets of Paris, or getting lost in Rome, or tranquilly gazing at a temple near Kyoto, or feeling the warm cocoon of a happy relationship.

Leggere non è importante perché aiuta a trovare lavoro. È importante perché fornisce uno spazio per esistere al di là della realtà che ci è data.

es un libro de los que leen para sentirse inteligentes, o de los que fingen no haber leído nunca para seguir pareciendo inteligentes?

Yes, there are lots of questions. And even more books. So, so many. Humans in their typical human way have written far too many to get through. Reading is added to that great pile of things – work, love, sexual prowess, the words they didn't say when they really needed to say them – that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.