A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Samuel JohnsonLong books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
E.M. ForsterTag: reading criticism praise reviewing reading-books exaggeration long-book overpraising
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Marina TsvetaevaTag: words reading books literature
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: words reading books literature
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
Clive BarkerTag: reading equality horror blood
If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.
Mark GlamackTag: politics friends reading books family parents people fantasy book novel teenagers teens
As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives profoundly different from mine, of a taste opposite to mine, where I find nothing of my conscious thought, where my imagination is excited by feeling itself plunged into the depths of the non-ego; I feel happy only when setting foot—on the Avenue de la Gare, on the Port, or on the Place de l'Eglise—in one of those provincial hotels with cold, long corridors where the wind from outside contends successfully with the efforts of the heating system, where the detailed geographic map of the district is still the sole ornament on the walls, where each noise helps only to make the silence appear by displacing it, where the rooms keep a musty perfume which the open air comes to wash, but does not eliminate, and which the nostrils inhale a hundred times in order to bring it to the imagination, which is enchanted with it, which has it pose like a model to try to recreate it with all the thoughts and remembrances that it contains...
Marcel ProustTag: reading
A good book is an event in my life.
StendhalTag: reading books literature
Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
José SaramagoNothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
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