“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
The Unread Story… ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Author – Born: October 21, 1929
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Books – Arnold Lobel
Books to the ceiling.
Books to the sky.
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time read them.
~Arnold Lobel
Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
“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
