“Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist’s head, and you invest many hours to do so.”
~ Jay McInerney
A little of this. A little of that.
“Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist’s head, and you invest many hours to do so.”
~ Jay McInerney
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
~ John Locke
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
~ Rene Descartes
“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or hers imagination.
~ Alice Hoffman
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
reading
writing
posting
blogging
walking
eating
not
nesesarily
in
that
order
eating a pear
accompanied with
a cup of black
French Roast coffee
while reading
emails
and blogs
Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
~ Chinese Saying
“Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed … Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write ‘splendid,’ but also, ‘I don’t believe a word of it.’ And even ‘bullshit.'”
~ Tim Parks, Novelist – Born: December 19, 1954
Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
-Maya Angelou
“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”
– Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
– William Faulkner
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler
“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov
Born: August 28, 1913 – Died: December 2, 1995
Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, professor and critic.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen King
Source: A book a day keeps reality away
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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
– Bertrand Russell
Laying on the couch
Spending time going
Through the email
Reading the notifications
Of the people I follow
While the TV is watching me
What a charming life I live
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
– Steven Wright
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
– Voltaire
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say
to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering
the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.
-Paul Auster
Reading makes a full man,
meditation a profound mind,
discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin
Quote Source: en.proverbia
What would you be doing, if wasn’t reading this post?
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
Al Pacino
Monday evening. 6:20 pm.
While reading and going
through the blogs I follow.
While I am doing this,
NCIS on USA is keeping
me company.
Just another Sunday
Periods of rain since day break
Did the online crossword
Drinking coffee
Read some of the news
Watching football on the boob tube
Just another Sunday
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
– Paul Sweeney
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
–Bertrand Russell
1. You post it.
2. I read it.