“Remembering, according to etymologists, is "bringing back to the heart." The heart, however, is merely an absentminded organ that pumps blood. But rereading is not like remembering. les more like rewriting ourselves: the subtle alchemy of reinventing our past through the twice-underscored words written by others.” HeartReadingMemory Book:Papeles falsos Source: Papeles falsos
“I have never asked a bookseller for a book recommendation. Disclosing desires and expectations to a stranger whose only connection to me is, in abstract, the book, seems too much like Catholic confession, if only a more intellectualized version of it.” ReadingBooksConfession Book:Lost Children Archive Source: Lost Children Archive
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.” BookReadingLanguageJourneyProtectChaosMetaphorConstructionScaffolding Author:Valeria Luiselli
“I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them.” WorldEyeReading Author:Valeria Luiselli