Membaca untuk memahami kehidupan. Membaca untuk cuba menerima bukan melupakan. Membaca untuk larut dalam lautan perasaan. Oh Tuhan, aku rindu yang bersangatan?

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.

The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory.
عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .

the moment when you look from your book and realize that there is a world behind the book

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.