Book Quote by Ezra Pound

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

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

— Ezra Pound

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running…

— Jeremy Collier

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing…

— Owen Barfield

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

— Montaigne

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

I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the mind.”

— J Oswald Sanders

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

— Harold E. Varmus

“She's a bit nutty. She spends all day reading.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall…

— Haruki Murakami