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- Nora Ephron
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Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter.
We cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that purposely ignore their hearts.
Anonymous middle school English teacher in Manhattan, Teach the Books, Touch the Heart via NYTimes.com
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Francis Bacon
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
Ann Patchett, And the Winner of the Pulitzer Isn’t
In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won’t do the work for you. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not “interactive” with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper’s Magazine (via bookoasis)
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We read to know that we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis (via silas216)
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“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction…. It requires us to pace ourselves. It returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no choice but to be patient, to take each thing in its moment, to let the narrative prevail. We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little, by stepping back from the noise.” ~David Ulin, The Lost Art of Reading – Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
How to Survive the Age of Distraction
by Johann Hari
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The pursuit of reading is carried on by private people.
Virginia Woolf
