645 quotes found
“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he dot...”
“Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.”
“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just dont have time, Im thinking, How can you not have time? I read when Im drying my...”
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”
“Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
“We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks."Required reading," I say."It'...”
“It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page be...”
“Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army--the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head...”
“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”
“Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace. ”
“In reading we must become creators.”
“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”
“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read wh...”
“The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”
“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend a course of reading. Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”
