#reading

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#book #certain #comes #death #end

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#books #fact #in fact #longer #mastered

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#collapse #day #his #lazy #most

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? ↗

— Tom Baker

#kind #neurotic #prying #reading #really

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. ↗

— Russell Baker

#age #back #carries #good #had

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#art

They're book addicts. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #reading #humor