Raed Quotes

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.

My business is not reading your messages. I don’t have a business doing that. And it’s against my values to do that. I don’t want to read your private stuff.

Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

Learn as much by writing as by reading.