All Quotes By Tag: Reading

“إحدى يديه كانت منهمكة بالعبث في خصلات شعريوالأخرى كان ينفث بها سيجارته ،إلتقطتها منه بغضب وبإمتعاض ممقوتوهمست له : دعها تلك اللعينة فلن أسمح بأن تشاركني فيك !”

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep”

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

“With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

“Yeah. Floyd is his batman.”His what?”Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant.”You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don’t make you money than anybody I know.”

“I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”

“You read a book for the story, for each of its words,” Gordy said, “and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take that seriously, but you should also read and draw because really good books and cartoons give you a boner.”I was shocked:”Did you just say books should give me a boner?””Yes, I did.””Are you serious?””Yeah… don’t you get excited about books?””I don’t think that you’re supposed to get THAT excited about books.””You should get a boner! You have to get a boner!” Gordy shouted. “Come on!”We ran into the Reardan High School Library.”Look at all these books,” he said.”There aren’t that many,” I said. It was a small library in a small high school in a small town.”There are three thousand four hundred and twelve books here,” Gordy said. “I know that because I counted them.””Okay, now you’re officially a freak,” I said.”Yes, it’s a small library. It’s a tiny one. But if you read one of these books a day, it would still take you almost ten years to finish.””What’s your point?””The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.”Wow. That was a huge idea.Any town, even one as small as Reardan, was a place of mystery. And that meant Wellpinit, the smaller, Indian town, was also a place of mystery.”Okay, so it’s like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it’s like you’ve read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn.””Yes, yes, yes, yes,” Gordy said. “Now doesn’t that give you a boner?””I am rock hard,” I said.”

“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough–I, for one, don’t want to read about make believe misery, too.”

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”

“Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.”

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour — write, write, write.”

“أمقت تلك المسافات التي تفصلني عنك ،أتذمر من تلك المواقيت التي تسرقني منك ..أسخط على أعين تتأملك / على أنامل تلمسكعلى أنفاسك وهي تستنشقك !على نبضاتك وهي تستشعرك ، على ثيابك وهي تعانقك”

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”