Books Quote by Mark Mathabane Download Open image ““Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.”” — Mark Mathabane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Reading
“She was soothing chaos. Like that first taste of anesthesia, before you lost your senses. Or the venom that numbed you before it killed… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“Reading is getting lost in a world of your choosing without having to feel the physical pain ~ Me.” — Musicinto Copy Share Image
“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.” — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!” — Kelley Lovelace Copy Share Image
“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark,… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
“There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Throughout all the years that I lived in South Africa, people were to call me a fool for refusing to live life the way… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
“Gradually, I came to accept hunger as a constant companion. But this new hunger was different. It filled me with hatred, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness,… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
“Marjory Gengler (white American) to Mark Mathabane (black South African) in the late 1970s-- Marjory: Why don't blacks fight to change the system [apartheid]… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
“Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.” — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
