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Dec. 5th, 2011 02:40 pmKes: I picked out my favorites from
40 Inspiring Quotes About Reading
http://flavorwire.com/237785/40-inspiring-quotes-about-reading-from-writers
but now I'm seriously wondering how bookworms ever managed to get areputation for being quiet and well-behaved--a more misbehaving, troublemaking, attitude-enabled group I've rarely contemplated.
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” --Sherman Alexie
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!” --Dr. Seuss
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that
tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” --James Baldwin
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” --Malcolm X
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” --Victor Hugo
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” --Confucius
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” --Oscar Wilde
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” --Virginia Woolf
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” --Jorge Luis Borges
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” --Nora Ephron
40 Inspiring Quotes About Reading
http://flavorwire.com/237785/40-inspiring-quotes-about-reading-from-writers
but now I'm seriously wondering how bookworms ever managed to get areputation for being quiet and well-behaved--a more misbehaving, troublemaking, attitude-enabled group I've rarely contemplated.
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” --Sherman Alexie
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!” --Dr. Seuss
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that
tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” --James Baldwin
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” --Malcolm X
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” --Victor Hugo
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” --Confucius
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” --Oscar Wilde
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” --Virginia Woolf
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” --Jorge Luis Borges
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” --Nora Ephron
