Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book…

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book.”

— Stephen King

They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home

— Troy Ave

“Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I…

— Italo Calvino

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

— C. S. Lewis

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.”

— Montaigne

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than…

— Lewis Carroll

“The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the reason for…

— John Bunyan

“A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there…

— Christopher Morley

“as [ale] is the liquor of modern historians,..., it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be…

— Henry Fielding

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and…

— Hojo Soun

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of…

— Ezra Pound