READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol 1 Issue 11 May 2014 | Page 5

Reading is an Adventure
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a
dreadful time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far
away from home.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous
Journey
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are
wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages.
They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along.
You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an
unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word
and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.”
― David Almond
“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”
― Lloyd Alexander
“Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were
attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey
into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about
it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from
reading, 'the right books.”
― Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

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