645 quotes found
“Sometimes when you read, its like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. Its as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.”
“Read everything you can push into your skull. Read your mothers diary. Read Assata. Read everything Gloria Steinem and bell hooks write. Read all of the poems your friends leave in your locker. Rea...”
“Reading is just staring at a dead piece of wood for hours and hallucinating.”
“She read about people she could never be and adventures she'd never have.”
“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what we can become.”
“I cant get past one or two pages at a time. Thats how its supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of tea.”
“From Tudor to eighteenth-century England, there are many instances of women writers with no place or room of their own. The life-story of the play-wright Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (1585-1639) g...”
“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.”
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when th...”
“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until...”
“I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats”
“like traveling without knowing what country youre going to”
“To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.”
“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea to another than with clarifying an emotion to themselves. Or when the subject of ...”
“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but theyre also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Acheb...”
“But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It was suddenly as if the book were not a dining room table at all, but a sort of...”
“A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.”
“A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell”
“You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.”
“Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.”
