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Words don’t change their shape, they change their meaning, their function... They don’t have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don’t know, that you’ve never read or heard... you’ve never seen their shape, but you feel... you suspect... they correspond to... an empty space inside you... or in the universe (Read Quotes)
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it’s far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy (Read Quotes)
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I’m not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!... You have been my body’s health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were (Read Quotes)
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn’t bother to read it (Read Quotes)
Reading is a gift. It’s something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on (Read Quotes)
That’s the magic of books. They’re never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own (Read Quotes)
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life (Read Quotes)
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time (Read Quotes)
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world (Read Quotes)
It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me (Read Quotes)
You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read (Read Quotes)
At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented (Read Quotes)
I never listen to what people tell me and I can’t read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it’s wrong. If I feel good, it’s right (Read Quotes)
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read (Read Quotes)
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer (Read Quotes)
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth (Read Quotes)
If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it (Read Quotes)
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being (Read Quotes)
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination (Read Quotes)
The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing (Read Quotes)
That’s what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It’s like you don’t know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That’s really true; I believe that (Read Quotes)
It’s like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it’s your mind that allows the words to come to life (Read Quotes)
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing (Read Quotes)
The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams (Read Quotes)
It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different (Read Quotes)
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy (Read Quotes)
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read (Read Quotes)
Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read (Read Quotes)
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside (Read Quotes)
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone’s true character is revealed (Read Quotes)