Reading Quotes

You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in other writings. I remembered, for example, that for quite some time I tracked down the subject of kissing. I read and read and felt dizzy with the subject, as if I had eaten a psychotropic fruit.

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

David Halberstam

Warning:This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art that was once called reading. It is a simple adjustment and there will be no negative or harmful effects from this process.What you are doing: "Reading" ExplainedEach sheet is indelibly printed with information and the sheets are visually scanned from left to right, and from top to bottom.This scanned information is passed through the visual cortex directly into the brain, where it can then be accessed just like any other data.

Mike A. Lancaster

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

Jean-Claude Carrière

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.

Kenneth Goldsmith

When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

Reading maketh a full man.

Sir Francis Bacon

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Read mark learn and inwardly digest.

Bible

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

Reading maketh a full man.

Sir Francis Bacon

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Read mark learn and inwardly digest.

Bible

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Chinese Proverb

The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Goethe

I am a part of all I have read.

Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

E B White

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

Francis Yeats-Brown

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Daniel J. Boorstin

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Raymond Chandler

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

William Jovanovich

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

I read part of it all the way through.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Hortense Calisher

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

A good book has no ending.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

Bible

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

James Russell Lowell

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer J. Adler

In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

Books think for me.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

William Dean Howells

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