Reading

Reading Is The Key

“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

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes

Great books help you understand, and they help you understood. ~John Green

She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. ~Annie Dillard

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

The Joy Of Reading Fiction

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

R.I.P Toni Morrison

“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

Okay ….

reading
writing
posting
blogging
walking
eating
not
nesesarily
in
that
order

Saturday Afternoon

eating a pear

accompanied with

a cup of black

French Roast coffee

while reading

emails

and blogs

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King

“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924

To read a book …..

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,… ~ Tim Parks

“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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650

Confucius Quote

Reading Quote: Maya Angelou

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

Reading A Book

Carl Sagan Quotation

Time Is Never Wasted ~ Thomas Pynchon

“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”
– Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin

William Faulkner Quote

“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

Reading ~ Judith Butler

“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

Books

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov

Read Books…

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? Picture Quote #1

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On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami

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Robertson Davies

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

Born: August 28, 1913 – Died: December 2, 1995

Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, professor and critic.

Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Saul Bellow On Libraries

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Jane Austen On Reading

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T.S. Eliot On Libraries

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Reading Quote By William Nicholson

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A book a day keeps reality away

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Reading Quote

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J.D. Salinger Quote On Reading A Book

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Reading Quote – Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.

– Bertrand Russell

Libraries – Doris Lessing

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Wednesday Morning Quote

Reading Question

Writing Quote

This Has Happened To Me A Few Times, And It Sucks

Reading

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

Paul Theroux Quote

Born: April 10, 1941

Steven Wright Quote

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”

– Steven Wright
http://www.bquot.es/s/1815

Learning

Voltaire Quote

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

– Voltaire

http://www.bquot.es/s/1823

Joseph Addison Quote

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

– Joseph Addison

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Literature Quote by Paul Auster

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

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Man

Reading makes a full man,
meditation a profound mind,
discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin

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