I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.
Sven BirkertsThe failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan BloomTags: reading books vision belief self-deception narrowmindedness self-limiting-beliefs
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxTags: humor reading books television
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
Francis BaconTags: reading
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
Thomas WhartonBooks to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.
Philip PullmanDon't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: libraries reading books freedom censorship thought
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra PoundYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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