Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
A letter from author Anne Lamott on the value of reading:
“If you love to read, or learn to love reading, you will have an amazing life. Period. Life will always have hardships, pressure, and incredibly annoying people, but books will make it all worthwhile. In books, you will find your North Star, and you will find you, which is why you are here.
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“If you love to read, or learn to love reading, you will have an amazing life. Period. Life will always have hardships, pressure, and incredibly annoying people, but books will make it all worthwhile. In books, you will find your North Star, and you will find you, which is why you are here.
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James Clear • 3-2-1: On the paradox of focus, criticism, and the value of reading
To open a book voluntarily is at some level to remark the insufficiency either of one’s life or of one’s orientation toward it. The distinction must be recognized, for when we read we not only transplant ourselves to the place of the text, but we modify our natural angle of regard upon all things; we reposition the self in order to see differently.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Mortimer Adler literally wrote the book on how to read a book.
Here are 27 powerful reading tips from him:
1) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
2) It’s the hard... See more