A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R. R. Martin
Getting the most from life
Tag: reading
Like Breathing…
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.“
― Annie Dillard
Getting the most from life
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R. R. Martin
There’s always room…
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
– J. K. Rowling
Study the master
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
—William Faulkner
Wrestling dragons…
Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
—G. K. Chesterton
Getting Away…
A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you’re the one writing it.
– Julie Wright
Getting the most from life
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R. R. Martin
Slipping…
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Book lovers never sleep alone.
—Anonymous
A Child’s World
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
