Quotes About Reading

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Language is not just a system for talking and reading. Talking and reading reflect the cognitive elaborations brought into the brain by language.

When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.

Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.

It is not new nor disastrous that few people read classics. It is new that so many people misread them.

It was boring like reading a Scandinavian novel.

Heutzutage trifft man gewöhnlich Leute, in denen der Typus vorwiegt, dem man anmerkt, dass er nur ein Buch gelesen hat.

Reading constantly brings new things; the maxims add up, they don't need a particular arrangement, an organizing concept. In an era dominated by confusion, the maxim, like a small building block, remains something that continues to claim literary value.

La letteratura è un traguardo che non risponde a generi né a temi. Avviene, e quando avviene è festa per chi legge.

The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

Uno scrittore al suo meglio istiga alla lettura e qualche volta anche alla scrittura. Pasolini mi istigava a formarmi un'opinione in disaccordo con lui. Era un intellettuale, la cui funzione è quella di rasentare i confini di un pensiero, fornendo così al lettore il perimetro dell'argomento.

En lisant, on rencontre des phrases sismiques.

Una cosa che non mi può succedere: perdere tempo a leggere il libro di uno scrittore che non stimo e aggiungere la perdita di tempo di scrivere contro.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.

Un escriptor instiga, sobretot, a la lectura, i de vegades també a l'escriptura. Un escritor instiga, sobretodo, a la lectura, y, de vez en cuando también a la escritura

J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.

J'ai écrit un jour que je voulais lire ta ie jusqu'à la dernière page. C'est chose faite, je l'ai lue jusqu'au bout. (202)

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.