Quotes Tagged With :reading

A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How....

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know that....

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that....

Acquiring knowledge is the most fruitful effort.

It feels great to read but greater to write.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than....

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional....

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other....