A friend on Rory’s Book Club recently posted a quote from The History Boys, and reminded me of how much I love that particular quote. That got me thinking about all my favorite quotes about reading, so I decided to post a few of them here:
“The best moments in reading, are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
–The History Boys
“Every new search is a voyage to the indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of a rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.”
-Vincent Starrett
“Each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the author’s description with the memory of their own experiences. Every character they read is actually a complex amalgam of people that they’ve met, read or seen before – far more real than it can ever be just from the text on the page. Because every reader’s experiences are different, each book is unique for each reader.”
–Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buy more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
-David Quanimen
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