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“Το να διαβάζεις χωρίς να στοχάζεσαι είναι σαν να τρως χωρίς να χωνεύεις.”

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“O perigo de penetrar apaixonadamente no mundo dos livros é o de nos tornarmos, nós próprios, no aglomerado de pequenos excertos literários.”

Reading Literature

Book:O Anjo Literário

Source: O Anjo Literário

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!”

Reading Education

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Vol 2

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Vol 2

“Her red lipstick leaving an imprint on the skin. Marking the place for the future tattoo. I lift her chin so I can get a good look at her face.”

Book:Bewitched

Source: Bewitched

“. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.”

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.”

Writing Humor Reading

Author:Shandy L. Kurth

“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.”

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

“Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...”

Reading Childhood Favorites

Book:The Weird Sisters

Source: The Weird Sisters

“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.”

Author:Patricia Goldbach

“I would kill everyone and everything for you.”

Romance Quotes Vampires

Book:Bewitched

Source: Bewitched

“Find a quiet place, and just read. If you’re reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader. Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.”

Book:Focus: A Simplicity Manifesto in the Age of Distraction

Source: Focus: A Simplicity Manifesto in the Age of Distraction