#reading

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. ↗

— Daniel T. O'Hara

#badness #books #reading #anger

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#arts #arts-and-humanities #book #books #culture

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then—click—a world opens. ↗

— Brad Kessler

#art

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#reading #schopenhauer #art

With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#traveling #art

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#reading #art

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#writing #art

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#reading #writing #art

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#interaction #literature #reading #art

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#inspirational-attitude #lifelong-learning #reading #attitude