If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar WildeDespite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
VoltaireA soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry PratchettTags: reading read bookshop bookstore discworld
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody AllenTags: humor reading speed-reading tolstoy
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Mark TwainTags: reading writing criticism austen
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: art reading writing fiction craft
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul BellowTags: libraries reading book-lovers
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: life reading books refuge pleasure bibliotherapy escape good-habits
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: reading nietzsche readers
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