Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
Michael KrügerTags: reading books reading-books reading-habits book-reading
It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep reading, and don’t ever let somebody else—anybody—have a say about, or try to control, what you choose to learn from and/or escape into.
Trent ZelaznyIf I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.
John Kendrick BangsTaking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not to teach our children to read in their childhood we should not be so anxious about the effects of pernicious literature upon their adolescent morals.
John Kendrick BangsTags: humor reading learning alphabet
أيقنت أننى أنتسب إلى نوع من ديدان الورق التى تأكل الكتب و تشرب الحبر و محكوم عليها بالأفكار الشاقة المؤبدة
أنيس منصورTags: reading thinking knowledge book-lovers ink
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
Raymond CarverTags: reading writing thought short-stories
A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation of the act of reading. Imagine, if you will, being strapped into a chair and made to listen to Liberace playing the piano for hour upon hour. Or imagine being fed chocolate dinner mints, like a hapless goose, until you are on the verge of explosion. Such was my lot.
Christopher HitchensTags: reading literary-criticism newspapers 1996 barbara-bush
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick JaggerTags: reading
Hurried reading can never be good reading
Georg Joachim GoschenTags: reading
In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev
Ernest HemingwayTags: reading dostoevsky hemingway
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