Perhaps she was more like him than he’d thought: her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer’s ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world.
My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It’s time to stop reading. It’s time to lay down the books and write.
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
Do people choose the art that inspires them – do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.