I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
Patrick Rothfuss

A couple that reads together stays together.

kamigarcia:

Read books. #reading

kamigarcia:

Read books. #reading

Libraries raised me.
Ray Bradbury
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picadorbookroom:

Last week, Jonathan Franzen discussed his reading habits over at the New York Times. We were happy to hear that Mario Vargas Llosa’s War of the End of the World was one of the best books he has read in the last year.

Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

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picadorbookroom:

Last week, Jonathan Franzen discussed his reading habits over at the New York Times. We were happy to hear that Mario Vargas Llosa’s War of the End of the World was one of the best books he has read in the last year.

Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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theswinginsixties:

1968 National Library Week poster

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theswinginsixties:

1968 National Library Week poster


From, “Peek at the Staff Picks Shelves From Indie Bookstores All Over America.”

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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

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“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.” 
― Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Vincent van Gogh

Life’s necessities.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, ‘I’m busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.’ WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you’re watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?
John Green

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