Quotes About Reading

Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism, or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book?

How much better off the poor man would be if he devoted himself to reading.

Por momentos puede ser maravilloso eso de que todo el mundo escriba porque uno encuentra colegas en todas partes , y por momentos puede resultar pesado, porque cualquier gilipollas iletrado se siente imbuido de todos los defectos y de ninguna de las virtudes de un escritor verdadero. Nicanor Parra lo dijo: tal vez sería conveniente leer un poco más.

Uno nunca termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno nunca termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.

todos los libros del mundo están esperando a que los lea).

I know you'll forgive my eccentricities, she said, after all we both read poetry.

Leer es como pensar, como rezar, como hablar con un amigo, como exponer tus ideas, como escuchar las ideas de los otros, como escuchar música (sí, sí), como contemplar un paisaje, como salir a dar un paseo por la playa.

sin el agobio del tiempo, pues tiempo era lo que sobraba, que es acaso lo que distingue a una democracia, el tiempo sobrante, la plusvalía de tiempo, tiempo para leer y tiempo para pensar

and he began to read an ordered a sandwich and a beer an paid for them, then he ordered a Fürst Pückler and paid for it because on the terrace one had to pay immediately for anything one had.

I was doing something useful. Something useful no matter how you look at it. Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. And you, who are so kind, now you must be asking: What did you read, Barry? I read everything.

Les Misérablesis a book I read in Mexico many years ago and left behind in Mexico when I left Mexico for good, and I'm not planning to buy it or reread it, because there's no point reading, much less rereading books that have been made into movies...

Ich las, aber die Worte zogen vorüber wie unbegreifliche Käfer.

Cuando uno lee jamás pierde el tiempo.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

I used to read everything, Professor, I read all the time. Now all I read is poetry. Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. I don't know if you follow me, Professor. Only poetry—and let me be clear, only some of it—is good for you, only poetry isn't shit.

Para ella la lectura estaba relacionada directamente con el placer y

La poesía chilena, dijo Bibiano aquella noche, va a cambiar el día que leamos correctamente a Enrique Lihn, no antes.

Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.

So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.

So let me guess," Casey said. "You have also failed to read Harry Potter ." I nodded. Casey collapsed against the nearest wall like he'd been shot. "Must...get...help...

I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found.

The last scroll was rolled so tight it seemed almost solid. Likely it was the oldest. As I forced it open it broke in pieces: two, three, and eventually five. I regretted doing it, but it was the only way to read it. If it had stayed coiled much longer, it would have crumbled into bits, never to be read again.

Novel reading tends to inflame the passions, pollute the imagination, and corrupt the heart. It frequently becomes an inveterate habit, strong and fatal as that of a drunkard. In this state of intoxication, great waywardness of conduct is always sure to follow. Even when the habit is renounced, and genuine reformation takes place, the individual always suffers the cravings of former excitement.

Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?