I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
-
David Mitchell
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open,...
-
Italo Calvino
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
-
B.F. Skinner
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
-
Gustave Flaubert
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-
Logan Pearsall Smith
More Quotes By Aaron Sorkin
To read a poem Is to see light where there is darkness Is to hear silence where there is noise Is to dance where there is no music Is to sing where the only instrument is words And the stirring, impassioned pauses
I can't remember the poem That pierced through my heart It was the saddest I heard Of all truths ever spoken It left a scar in me A wound that doesn't heal But the words are forgotten So is a big part of me
I read for pleasure In search of fictional worlds To enrich my truths
Real is overrated No way in my life is that the gist I'd be everything I am not If I were a fictionist
Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.
