Reading Quotes

The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to «I hate to read new books,» and I hollered «Comrade!» to whoever owned it before me.

I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

And men don't do book clubs. Women want to share, but men, they hoard what they read, if they crack open a book.

— «And we think we rest in God all the crowd of the world». Old Goethe was right.
— As soon as your head does not burst from smart books. I think you read too much.
— Without this food for my mind, I will die from hunger, dear Clara.

Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.