We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.” 

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” 

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.” 

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” 

“A Disavowal of the pursuit of Middleclassness', the heading read. While it is permissible to chase ‘middleincomeness’ with all our might, the text stated, those blessed with the talent or good fortune to achieve success in the American mainstream must avoid the psychological entrapment of Black ‘middleclassness’ that hypnotizes the successful brother or sister into believing they are better than the rest and teaches them to think in terms of ‘we’ and ‘they’ instead of 'US'!” 

“Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you” 

“Three keys to success: read, read, read.” 

“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,” 

“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.” 

Read what you love until you love to read.

I no longer track books read or even care about books read. It’s about understanding concepts.

Sometimes people wrap long books around simple ideas.

I feel no obligation whatsoever to finish the book. If at some point I decide the book is boring, or if it’s got pieces of it that are incorrect so now I can’t trust the rest of the information in there, I just delete it.

Sometimes I’ll start reading a book in the middle because some paragraph caught my eye and I’ll just continue from there.

At any given time I’m reading somewhere between ten and 20 books. I’m flipping through them. If the book is getting a little boring, I’ll skip ahead.

The real education begins in the library, it begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school.

The best way to read is to: Pick up a lot of books. Start reading them all. Put down any book instantly that doesn’t grab you. And just keep going until you find something that speaks to you.

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.” 

We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.

“Reading in the car was so much my personal journey that when my mother urged me to put down my book and look out the window, I would protest, “But I just looked an hour ago!” 

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

“I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.” 

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.”