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Autobiography and memoir

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

1929

★ 1.1

Novel · Modernist literature

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 1.2

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

1931

★ 1.9

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Superman · 1978

★ 1.9

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

1332

★ 1.9

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

1625

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

1993

★ 1.9

I have done my plowing: I have sown my seed. Again I have time to sit and read my books.

427

★ 2.0

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1763

★ 2.0

There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

1864

★ 3.5

Interview · Magazine

I discovered me in the library.

Paris Review · 2010

★ 3.7

TV program · Fantasy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Fantasy · Drama

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister

Game of Thrones · 2011

★ 3.8

Autobiography and memoir

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 1790

★ 3.9