There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me... Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>