“ما أجمل أن تكون بصحبة أناس يقرأون”
“قراءة الكتب الجيدة .. تفسد استمتاعك بالكتب الرديئة”
“If you grow up in a household where there are books, where you are read to, where parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins read for their own pleasure, naturally you learn to read. If no one close to you takes joy in reading, where is the evidence that it's worth the effort?”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“I try not to cringe. Dog-earing a book feels like a violation of some sacred unspoken rule.”
Source: Puddin'
“El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve [...] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee, y, por lo tanto, la mayoría de las veces, es un ser «reblandecido por la televisión», adicto de por vida a los videojuegos.”
Source: Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
“Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!”
Source: Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium
“I gave more than I had, more than they asked for and definitely more than they deserved.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Fiction is life by design.”
“Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.”
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.”
Source: Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man