Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
Nora EphronRead
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way _x000D_ my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. _x000D_ Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to _x000D_ make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Reading serves as both an escape from reality and a means of connecting with it.
Nora Ephron's quote reflects the dual nature of reading as a form of escapism while simultaneously grounding us in reality. For those with attention deficit disorder, reading can be a healthy distraction and a technique to engage with the complexities of life, allowing individuals to transition from their imaginative thoughts back to the world around them.
Themes
ReadingEscapismRealityAttention DeficitLiteratureHealth
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a speech about the importance of reading for mental health.
More from Nora Ephron
All quotes →I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
Nora EphronRead
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
Nora EphronRead
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
Nora EphronRead
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.
Nora EphronRead
I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.
Nora EphronRead
Similar quotes
The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
Marian Wright EdelmanRead
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
Eddie Van HalenRead
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?
Grace Lee BoggsRead
I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.
Martin LandauRead
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
Philip RothRead