I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.
Janet H. MurrayTags: reading
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.
John DunningTags: reading photography camera
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
Paul AusterPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
Tags: reading warning authors preface
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
Mary Ann ShafferDeprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
Aldous HuxleyTags: reading
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.
Mark VonnegutPeople wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
G.K. ChestertonTags: reading literature novels
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William ShakespeareMost non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
Tom BissellTags: reading readers non-readers
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