500 Quotes by Reading

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Reading one’s own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet’s tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.