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Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
Emilie Buchwald (via writersrelief)
Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine (via writersrelief)
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.
Paula Fox (via writersrelief)
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
Philip Roth (via writersrelief)
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions, produces finally a source of ecstacy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequaled by any other form of communication.
E. B. White (via writersrelief)
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 (via writersrelief)
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines (via writersrelief)
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
Pamela Dean (via writersrelief)
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne (via writersrelief)