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Reading Quotes by Alan Bennett
- The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you…
- What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for…
- A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
- ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of…
- [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and…
- The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or…
- Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the…
- To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how…
- The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
- Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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