quoth/tag/reading

Quote #3121

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:48:46 -0800

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation, it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
- Zig Ziglar

Quote #3058

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:07:54 -0700

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain

Quote #2897

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:35:47 -0700

The best moments in reading are when you come across something -- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things -- which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
- Alan Bennett

Quote #2493

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:14:29 -0800

...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- Franz Kafka
in a letter to Oskar Pollak

Quote #2492

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:06:08 -0800

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
- Holbrook Jackson

Quote #2491

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:04:46 -0800

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quote #2489

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:01:34 -0800

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself... You bring to a novel--anything you read--all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
- Angela Carter

Quote #2408

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:16:13 -0700

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
- William Ellery Channing

Quote #2287

Mon, 15 May 2006 15:47:12 -0700

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.

Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content."
Comic: “Sandman #28” by Neil Gaiman

Quote #2167

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:39:16 -0800

My girlfriend always laughs during sex---no matter what she's reading.
- Steve Jobs

Quote #2033

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:33:10 -0800

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
- Joe Ryan

Quote #1974

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:55:03 -0800

Time in life is short. You can only read so many books, so choose wisely.
- Martin Bucco - English literature professor at Colorado State University

Quote #1799

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:14:29 -0700

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle - Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)

Quote #1625

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:29:24 -0700

We forfeit the chief source of dignity and sweetness in life if we do not seek converse with the greater minds that have left their vestiges on the world.
- James Martineau

Quote #882

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:12:45 -0800

You read about love in books and you think you know what it's all about, and then it happens to you and you realize you hadn't understood anything about it at all up to that point.
- Anton Chekhov

Quote #867

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:00:40 -0800

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick

Quote #836

Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:48:10 -0800

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

Quote #615

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein