reading
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready.”
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.”
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written.”
“Oh God, without them [libraries], what have we? We have no past and we have no future.”
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you.”
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you—such is a pleasure beyond compare.”
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
“I believe that good books are like good friends—rare and worth traveling far to meet.”
“Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.”
“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour and the books of all time.”
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
“The business of writing demands two—the author and the reader.”