| |  | | | | | | | | | | | The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. | | Norman Cousins | | | There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. | | Walt Disney | | | There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!' | | Daniel J. Boorstin | | | | | To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature | | William Shakespeare | | | To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. | | John Andrew Holmes | | | To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. | | Victor Hugo | | | What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us | | Thomas Carlyle | | | | | When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted | | Charles Caleb Colton | | | You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. | | E. F. Schumacher | | | You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else | | Robert Louis Stevenson | | | | | | | |
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