We start this post with a phrase attributed to Paul Auster. The American writer used to say that "Reality does not exist if there is no imagination to see it."
And is that … how important is the imagination to understand what we have before our eyes? How many of us would have been told just a few months ago that we would be living in confinement due to a global pandemic … and would have thought it sounded like a science fiction plot?
And yet here we are.
We writing this post from home, teleworking, and you surely looking for a way to spend time at home in the most pleasant way possible.
On days like these it is especially important to exercise the imagination to get a new routine out of the hat and make the situation more bearable, to find new ways to communicate with our distant relatives, to know how to live better with those close to us, to be able to enjoy the leisure even without being able to go outside as we used to do.
So we are in love with books. Because they allow us to travel when it is not possible to cross the threshold, because they take us to other worlds when we do not want to be in ours, because they allow us to see things from a completely new point of view. And because although we are in a context dominated by the audiovisual where series and films call our senses … we will always keep a special corner (in our hearts and in our schedule) for literature.
In this post we want to share 10 phrases from famous writers that inspire us and that we trust will also tickle your minds of avid readers. Enjoy them and read, read and read!
one) «Of the various instruments invented by man, the most amazing is the book; all the others are extensions of his body … Only the book is an extension of the imagination and memory», Jorge Luis Borges.
2) «To travel far, there is no better ship than a book», Emily Dickinson.
3) "By the thickness of the dust in the books of a public library, the culture of a town can be measured", John Ernest Steinbeck.
4) «We read to know that we are not alone», William Nicholson.
5) «He who reads a lot and walks a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot», Miguel de Cervantes.
6) «Learning to read is lighting a fire, each syllable that is spelled is a spark», Victor Hugo.
7) «You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. You just have to stop people from reading them», Ray Bradbury.
8) «A book must be the ax that breaks the frozen sea within us», Franz Kafka.
9) «Learning to read is the most important thing that has happened to me. Almost 70 years later I clearly remember that magic of translating words into images», Mario Vargas Llosa.
10) «Do not read, as children do, for fun, or as the ambitious do, for the purpose of instruction. No, read to live», Gustave Flaubert.
We hope that all these phrases stimulate you and make you want to devour a new book, to discover a new author, to take a notebook and pen yourself and to try the craft of writing in first person… We leave you here some suggestions reading proposals and we hope that ultimately you will be very eager to continue stimulating the imagination through literature.
#KeepReadingEnCasa 🏡📚✨
