Quotes About Reading

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total television.

Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reality. From the time we begin to understand language until our death, we are perpetually surrounded by narratives, first of all in our family, then at school, then through our encounters with people and reading. - The Novel as Research. (1968)

La lectura, y sobre todo la lectura novelesca, es un tipo de sueño; un sueño que no realizamos dormidos sino en un estado particular que no corresponde enteramente a estar despierto.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.

När man älskar livet läser man inte.

Elämä ilman lukemista on vaarallista, silloin on pakko tyytyä elämiseen ja siinä on omat riskinsä.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

Life without anything to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life and that can lead you to take risks.

In any case, it wouldn't affect the results at all, but that phrase the balance of power always sounds impressive in conversation, as if you'd been reading Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. I

Wydr??y?em dziurk? w piasku, wsun??em tam oba dzie?a; teraz problem polega? na tym, ?e musia?em poszuka? sobie czego? do czytania. Zycie bez czytania jest niebezpieczne, trzeba zadowoli? si? samym ?yciem, a to niesie ze sob? pewne ryzyko.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.

I think I could use a library," she answered finally.

One great thing about church friends: they buy and read your books.

There's always the literature cure. Take a big box of books out to the desert and read until things shift. Bleak House can cure anything." Lewis smacked the steering wheel. "Bleak House is about my favorite fucking book in the world.

Reading is a way to quench your thirst for knowledge.

Watching television requires less of an effort than reading newspapers and magazines, which is its greatest danger. (Chapter 12)

One of the joys of reading as a writer is that your eye becomes educated: yes, you may become more critical and abandon a higher percentage of novels halfway through, but when a writer gets it really right, the pleasure and admiration can be all the more intense.