#reading

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view. ↗

— Jane Austen

#equality

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ↗

— William Styron

#reading #experience

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#on-fiction #reading #experience

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#reading #experience

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#experience #hobbies #reading #travel #experience

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ↗

— Will Rogers

#fence #few #kinds #learn #learns

Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#entertaining #guests #light #lot #needs

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. ↗

— John Sladek

#influence #moment #reading #seems #whatever

I've been reading horror since I was five years old. ↗

— George Stephen

#five #horror #i #old #reading

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. ↗