Read Quotes

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.

You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.

I read good. I was an English major.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story.

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.