{"id":834,"date":"2007-08-27T05:51:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=834"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:59:49","slug":"more-quotes-on-the-glories-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/more-quotes-on-the-glories-of-reading","title":{"rendered":"More Quotes on the Glories of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3711 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bookfireplace.jpg\" alt=\"Book and Fireplace\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bookfireplace.jpg 960w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bookfireplace-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bookfireplace-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bookfireplace-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m a voracious reader. You have to read to survive. People who read for pleasure are wasting their time. Reading isn&#8217;t fun; it&#8217;s indispensable.<br \/>\n&#8211;Woody Allen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright?&#8230;Without moving, you walk through the countries you see in your mind&#8217;s eye; and your thoughts, caught up in the story, stop at the details or rush through the plot. You pretend you&#8217;re the characters and feel it&#8217;s your own heart beating beneath their costumes.<br \/>\n&#8211;Gustave Flaubert<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll spend the rest of my life reading, and because I&#8217;d rather read than do anything else, I don&#8217;t look forward to years of hopeless, black despair. Most men who are in for life are filled with bitterness and hatred for the unkind fate that led them to such a horrible fate.<br \/>\n&#8211;Willie Sutton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a voracious reader. You have to read to survive. People who read for pleasure are wasting their time. Reading isn&#8217;t fun; it&#8217;s indispensable. &#8211;Woody Allen What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright?&#8230;Without moving, you walk through the countries you see in your mind&#8217;s eye; and your thoughts, caught up in the story, stop at the details or rush through the plot. You pretend you&#8217;re the characters and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bookfireplace.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-ds","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}