July 2011
“I didn’t want to report on the books I was reading, so I made up books for my reports, coming up with a title, an author, a theme, and the major characters.”
—Judy Blume, recalling her elementary school days (via libraryland)
“When I’m 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I’ll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, “After all this time?” And I will say, “Always.”
—Alan Rickman (via prettybooks)
“Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading—in things like recipes and “reading material.” The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don’t do the other simply because you do the one.”
—Richard Mitchell (The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian)
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
—François Mauriac (via booksandnerds)
“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas… . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It’s about words. It’s about a man dealing with life. Okay?”
—J.R. Moehringer (via absynthe-words)
