You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. “Did you like it?” His dad asked. “Yup,” Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
I don’t have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
Reading it the night before, I’d wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I’d played in her dying. But I wasn’t convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves.
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there’s any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.
Reading is more important to me than eating.
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings.
Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.