Quotes About Reading

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books.

Porque Kafka descubre un nuevo modo de leer: la literatura le da forma a la experiencia vivida, la constituye como tal y la anticipa.

Por eso, al final el mundo es invadido por Tlön, la realidad se disuelve y se altera. El narrador se refugia nuevamente en la lectura; en otro tipo de lectura esta vez, una lectura controlada, minuciosa, la lectura como traducción. El traductor es aquí el lector perfecto, un copista que escribe lo que lee en otra lengua, que copia, fiel, un texto, y en la minuciosidad de esa lectura olvida lo real.

Lo que me interesa señalar en el bellísimo final de «Trön...» es algo que encontraremos en muchos otros textos de Borges: la lectura como defensa. La quietud a la que alude la hipálage está en el acto de leer; todo queda en suspenso; la vida, por fin, se ha detenido.

No puedo decir nada, salvo leer y recordar frases ajenas.

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt.

startling—the Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

Bir insan? çabucak anlamak istediÄŸimde, kitapl???na bir göz atmak yeter.

You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that you do. You breathe in people's ears. You sound like a stallion in heat, Philbrick. That's a shitty habit. You also sound like you're reading off a teleprompter, even when you're not. You ought to take care of stuff like that. You might save a life.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.

It is the joy of true education: of reading for the sake of a wonderful book rather than for an exam; of following up a subject because it is fascinating rather than because it is on a syllabus; of watching a great teacher's eyes light up for sheer love of the subject.

Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations—that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls.

Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun.

My only advice for reading the book is stop reading when it is no longer fun.

Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face. The unfeasibly heart-jolting shock once, as a tome fell heavily open at some much-visited page, divided itself neatly in two blocky halves along the spine — and you thought, guiltily, that you'd broken it.

I already have a doctorate in conflict investment. I don't really need the gifted-amateur reading list.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it's yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it's yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?

Life and reading are not separate activities, When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.