«About reading»

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

There’s no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can’t put your feet up on it and a dog can’t jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Jim Rohn

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it’s like to live in someone else’s shoes.

John Irving

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Ernest Dimnet

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

John Green

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Abraham Lincoln

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

R. L. Stine

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter