June Musings: The Joy of Imaginative Reading

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it—or rather, it is like living it.

It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.”

˜ Dodie Smith (b. 3 May 1896 – d. 24 November 1990), I Capture the Castle

June

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

That doesn’t happen much, though.”

~ J.D. Salinger (b. January 1, 1919 – d. January 27, 2010)