reading Quotes

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing reading

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing reading imagination

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:understanding reading books

“Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:reading books

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:reading books choice

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

topic:reading books

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:reading ignorance

“books are a uniquely portable magic.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:reading books

“And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:reading learning progress

“All this she must possess . . . and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:reading mind

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