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Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards.

Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing

I can’t get past one or two pages at a time.’ ‘That’s how it’s supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of tea.

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors’ collective and collaborative minds at work.

A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or ‘non compos mentis’ (“no power of the mind”) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refined precision. A writer’s use of vivid language creates lingering aftereffects that work their wonder on the reader’s malleable mind. A stirred mind resurrects our semiconscious memories; it causes us to summon up enduring images of our family, friends, and acquaintances. Just as importantly, inspir

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

We are not ‘censored’ in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To se

The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps dwelt in for years.

Life is education.Education is a lifetime knowledge.

The Bible is the most inspired book of all times.

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.

Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.

Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.

Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.

Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination t

Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.

Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished her mind with pictures.

If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.

Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...

Books make the soul float.

One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation

over the decadesher books becamesuch a part of herthatthe ink somehow escapedher veins & bloomedher favorite words & imagesonto her skin.nowthe worldwould have no doubt:she was thepageboundgirl- page to skin

A girl who travels will need someone that questions her, not too little, and not too much. She’ll need someone to read her, but also really listen to her. Because she’ll want to do the same. She’ll want a person that shares an interest but at the same time stays genuine to who they are. Not drown in a puddle of narcissism. And not drown in a lake of fascination.

He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.

Time flies but books are timeless...

The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the time and keeps reminding about how to act and react towards things and occurrences’ in life!

There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

We live to read.

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

When I read my writing, am amazed by what I have captured in a given moments.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

You are a book being read every moment, By someone or the other, Though only in parts! But, you are extremely safe, Rather, unfortunate For no one has ever read the entire book!

It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones.

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.

Everyone wants to be happy and live mindfully. Books teach us how to resuscitate the body and soul and how to recognize what in our own personal lives is worthy of noticing. Writers’ considered opinions and subtle observations regarding the joys, paradoxes, pains, tragedies, and truths of living provide us with a jumpstart in analyzing how best to integrate our personal experiences and disjointed thoughts into a cogent belief system. An artistic person understands their passions demand a struggl

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Reading...inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won't get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.

There was nothing as romantic as the feel of a book in your hands.

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.