All Quotes By Tag: Reading
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
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“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“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.”
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“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
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“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
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“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
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“Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”
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“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
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“My life is a reading list.”
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“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
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