“Reading is a particularly effective counterbalance to many of the negative effects of other forms of entertainment we consume... Holding a book in your hands and slowing down to read offers an antidote to digital overload.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Reading is very good.”
“When you’re bereaved you’re so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.”
Source: Youll Get Over It: The Rage Of Bereavement
“But whereas the story appeals to our curiosity and the plot to our intelligence, the pattern appeals to our aesthetic sense, it causes us to see the book as a whole.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“My efforts were not less maybe you just wanted too much.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“If somebody could write a book for people who never read they would make a fortune”
Source: Love from Nancy
“I don’t want to sound pretentious, but I don’t understand people who don’t have books.” Emmanuel de Bayser”
Source: Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
“Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks.”
Source: Lot
“We bring our life stories, our prejudices, our grudges, our expectations, and our limitations with us to books….Openness to a book is vital, and openness is simply a willingness to be changed by what we read. This is not as easy as it sounds. Many people read to solidify their own views.”
Source: Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
“Lo que falta son lectores: escritores ya hay demasiados.”