Reading
Quotes - A book is a garden
“The
books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who
lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad.
She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She
travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English
village.”
―
Roald Dahl, Matilda
“Closed
in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is
missing out.”
―
Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“No
matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or
surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
―
Atwood H. Townsend
“Literature
is news that stays news.”
―
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
“The
world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good
place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and
love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship
and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when
you treated them badly.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath
“Read.
Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various
authors so that you develop different style.”
―
R.L. Stine
“I
was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never
heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into
utter despair.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
“A
book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a
counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
―
Charles Baudelaire
“Why
do I read?
I
just can't help myself.
I
read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and
to be motivated.
I
read to understand things I've never
been
exposed to.
I
read when I'm crabby, when I've just
said
monumentally dumb things to the
people
I love.
I
read for strength to help me when I
feel
broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I
read when I'm angry at the whole
world.
I
read when everything is going right.
I
read to find hope.
I
read because I'm made up not just of
skin
and bones, of sights, feelings,
and
a deep need for chocolate, but I'm
also
made up of words.
Words
describe my thoughts and what's
hidden
in my heart.
Words
are alive--when I've found a
story
that I love, I read it again and
again,
like playing a favorite song
over
and over.
Reading
isn't passive--I enter the
story
with the characters, breathe
their
air, feel their frustrations,
scream
at them to stop when they're
about
to do something stupid, cry with
them,
laugh with them.
Reading
for me, is spending time with a
friend.
A
book is a friend.
You
can never have too many.”
―
Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
“I
read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret
Atwood
“I
guess there are never enough books.”
―
John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
“The
odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
―
Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
“There
are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of
the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a
lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally
stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The
other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung
Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
―
John Rogers
“Belikov
is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the
great offense he commited against you this morning."
"Thank
you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?"
"I
don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse
than vipers, though."
"Canadian
geese are deadlier than vipers?"
"You
ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to
vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More
suffering."
"Wow.
I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought
about all of this.”
―
Richelle Mead, Frostbite
“To
learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a
spark.”
―
Victor Hugo
“That
perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a
faithful friend and a good library.”
―
Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
“Despite
the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads
profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content
to swallow every day.”
―
Voltaire
“When
I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world,
I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Reading
is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned
something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me
something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my
attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the
opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of
making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's
imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is
bliss.”
―
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
