Quotes about reading
116 quotes from 88 people
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
?UnattributedOften credited to Dorothy ParkerLet no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. J. P. Richter, I: Prolegomena
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Palm Sunday (1981), The People One KnowsThe only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley1703–1791Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George EayrsGod forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West1892–1983“The Tosh Horse,” The New Statesman (1925)
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist Part I (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1905) The Critic As Artist Part II, in Intentions New York, Bretanos. Retrieved from Library of Congress Americana Archive.org 26 February 2018More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
