Read Quotes (page 85)

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• book
• reading
• imagination

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. C. S. Lewis

• him
• reading
• mood

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. Virginia Woolf

• lonely
• reading
• real

Real reading is a lonely activity. Harold Bloom

• reading
• writing
• writes

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading Vladimir Nabokov

• men
• understanding
• past

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the... Ursula K. Le Guin

• society
• words
• may

Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. Virginia Woolf

• goals
• reading books
• book

We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me... Elizabeth Gilbert

• reading
• thinking
• writing

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. David McCullough

• personal
• feeling
• soul

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows….. I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently... Fernando Pessoa

• mystic
• time
• time changes

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time. Stephen Hawking

• reading
• believe
• she

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. Virginia Woolf

• reading
• pride
• letting

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Jorge Luis Borges

• enough
• experience
• common

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the... Wendell Berry

• book
• reading
• commitment

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. John Waters

• reading
• saying
• writing

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that? Ray Bradbury