Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should…

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

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

— Montaigne

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

— Ezra Pound

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague…

— Niall Williams

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

— Bryce Courtenay

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a…

— Anonymous

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human…

— Matt Haig

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,

— Harper Lee

“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

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

“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

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special…

— Wendell Phillips