Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret FullerA wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
Vladimir NabokovTags: reading literature reader quote nabokov
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir NabokovTags: reading books writing reader author
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: books literature reader readership
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran LebowitzTags: wisdom reading books thinking reader advice-for-daily-living speaking
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books book reader immortality rebirth
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
Alberto ManguelReaders, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
Alberto ManguelTags: books reader readers censors
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books reader page
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books society book reader
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