#read

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People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy about a book that hasn't given itself over to you yet--sometimes I'm the most inspired by imagining what the contents of an unread book might be. ~ Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude


Leah Price


#reading #imagination

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome.


Jane Austen


#history #men-s-world #power #reading #war

I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.


Joe Queenan


#reading #shirts #strangers #men

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]


Siri Hustvedt


#men

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.


Will Smith


#gotta #how #i #life #my life

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.


Jules Verne


#reading #being

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.


Lisa See


#novelists #reading #storytellers #storytelling #writers

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?


Christopher Paolini


#reading #appreciation

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.


Harrison Birtwistle


#constantly #evolve #i #ideas #layers

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.


Anita Brookner


#hares #market #read #time #tortoise