Reading Quotes

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, “Didn’t you see the stop sign?” I said, “Yeah, but I don’t believe everything I read”

Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

Surely I could never be certain of how many stars I’ve counted in the sky or of how such tiny particles can be build into wild-eyed stories like Aquarius and Cassiopeia. I could read you as I would the constellations and never tire.