When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.