Reading Quotes

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.