Take a peek at the dream bookshelves of great musicians, writers, designers ... yeah, guess what? They ALL read:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/13/my-ideal-bookshelf-jane-mount-thessaly-la-force/
And some quotations to further inspire you ...
From Pico Iyer: "What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet
forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough
change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my
heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they
would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of
a stained-glass whole without which I couldn’t make sense to myself, or
to the world outside."
And Patti Smith: "I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings."
And finally, an ode to public libraries by Maira Kalman: "I love the architecture of public libraries, the very large windows.
Inside it’s polished, it’s quiet; during the day, the sun is usually
streaming through one room or another. And all the people are sitting
there together, but they’re all going to completely different places
through the books they’re reading."
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