Reading
Quotes - Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be
chewed and digested thoroughly
“You
think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the
world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that
tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people
who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
―
James Baldwin
“Some
books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and
digested thoroughly.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“You
get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read.
People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
―
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
“I
spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In
the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I
lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced
adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing
limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being
comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of
imagination formed through fiction.”
―
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
“Think
before you speak. Read before you think.”
―
Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Books
are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Those
who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the
cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful
things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Read,
read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they
do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
Read! You'll absorb it.
Then
write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
―
William Faulkner
“Reader's
Bill of Rights
1.
The right to not read
2.
The right to skip pages
3.
The right to not finish
4.
The right to reread
5.
The right to read anything
6.
The right to escapism
7.
The right to read anywhere
8.
The right to browse
9.
The right to read out loud
10.
The right to not defend your tastes”
―
Daniel Pennac
“No
tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no
surprise in the reader.”
―
Robert Frost
“Many
people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
―
Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“There
are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
―
Joseph Brodsky
“No
book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often
far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“I
cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even
so, they have made me.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Words
can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You
read and you’re pierced.”
―
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
