“Se tivesse metito a mão adentro do meu corte, talvez rearrumasse o meu interior, órgãos e saudades, as pedras do trabalho, nenúfares das sopas adornando tanta fome, tanta terra e tanto afogamento, poderia ajeitar por dentro meus mortos e lustrar meus santos e o amor que ainda era bastante, talvez até maior do que nunca.”
Source: Deus na escuridão
“If you are the one person who has read my book, I'm sorry that it made you blind. For the full Helen Keller Experience, try the audiobook version.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“I want to write a 500-word book full of colorful cartoons. The target reader will be between three to five years old, or a college basketball player.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own.”
Source: Motion Sickness
“Mythologist Joseph Campbell once spent 5 years living in a shack in rural New York where he read 9 hours a day. I did something similar as I was in middle school but I suspect Campbell read much better books. Most of my books were acquired at the flea market in Chiefland, FL where a hoarse voiced lady sold musty paperbacks 5 for $1.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the first few pages. I’m embarrassed to admit that now, given that these days I’m writing scripts myself and it’s like pulling teeth to get actors to respond. Maybe they feel how I used to feel: that in a life of fun and fame and money, reading a script, no matter the size of the number attached, feels all too much like school.
The universe will teach you, though. All those years I was too this, too that, to read a script, but last year I wrote a screenplay for myself and was trying get it made until I realized that I was too old to play the part. Most fifty-three-year-olds have worked their shit out already, so I needed to hire a thirty-year-old. The one I chose took weeks and weeks to respond, and I couldn’t believe how rude his behavior was.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Reading gives you vocabulary and knowledge, two powerful communication tools. You are never at a loss for words, and you will always have something interesting to say.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“p. 363 "We cannot stop individuals who read for the sole purpose of confirming their already closely held beliefs... But we can stop the dictators, the tyrants, the bullies who try to impose that method onto others.”
Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“Though, strictly speaking, there can be no absolutely passive reading, many people think that, as compared with writing and speaking, which are obviously active understankings, reading and listening are entirely passive. The writer or speaker must put out some effort, but no work need be done by the reader or listener. Reading and listening are though of as receiving communication from someone who is actively engaged in giving or sending it. The mistake here is to suppose that receiving communication is like receiving a blow or a legacy or a judgment from the court. On the contrary, the reader or listener is much more like the catcher in a game of baseball.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education
“Note here the close relation between reading and listening. If we ignore the minor difference between these two ways of receiving communication, we can say that reading and listening are the same art - the art of being taught.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education