“If somebody could write a book for people who never read they would make a fortune”
Source: Love from Nancy
“I don’t want to sound pretentious, but I don’t understand people who don’t have books.” Emmanuel de Bayser”
Source: Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
“Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks.”
Source: Lot
“We bring our life stories, our prejudices, our grudges, our expectations, and our limitations with us to books….Openness to a book is vital, and openness is simply a willingness to be changed by what we read. This is not as easy as it sounds. Many people read to solidify their own views.”
Source: Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
“Lo que falta son lectores: escritores ya hay demasiados.”
“Plants are fine and sunlight grand,
But nothing’s like a book in hand.”
Source: Lovolution 23: Poems and Songs
“Reading then is writing, in an endless movement of giving and receiving: each reading reinscribes something of a text; each reading reconstitutes the web it tries to decipher, but by adding another web. One must read in a text not only that which is visible and present but also the nontext of the text, the parentheses, the silences.”
Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine
“In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I liked books. Books liked me. End of story.”
Source: Shield & Shade
“Remember that you are never wasting time while you read. It’s not always about the content or material you read. The simple act of reading, no matter what you read, focuses your attention and is valuable in and of itself.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better