Books Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.”

— Angela Thirkell

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in…

— Eric Allin Cornell

“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there is no…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The funny thing is that I have this tendency to remember stuff really, really well, which is quite weird, even though I don't read,…

— Jay Blades

I was a precocious reader.

— Norman Spinrad

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no…

— Anonymous

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

— Elliot Perlman

“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they…

— Paul Theroux

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

— Anonymous

“Because sometimes the memory of what one has read tempers the actual experience, and the experience itself becomes, more than something physical, the realization…

— Sergio Chejfec

I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There…

— Muriel Barbery