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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Doris Lessing
Book, Reading, Doors
Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Doris Lessing
Book, Reading, Thought Provoking
Doris May Lessing (1992). “African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe”

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

Doris Lessing
Book, Reading, Week

I never stopped reading.

Doris Lessing
Reading

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Doris Lessing
Reading, School, Taught

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

Doris Lessing
Book, Reading, Bores You
"The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, (Introduction), 1971.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Doris Lessing
Reading, Thinking, Bed
Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.435, Vintage

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

Doris Lessing
Book, Reading, House
"A Hunger for Books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the next century. At least half of them I didn't understand at all, though I'm sure that kids today would know exactly what he meant. I'm somewhere in the past. I do think, however, that our brains have been damaged by technology. I meet kids who don't seem to be capable of reading a long sentence, much less a long book.

Doris Lessing
Book, Reading, Kids
Source: progressive.org

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