Assuming Quote by Gore Vidal

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

— Albert Einstein

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

— Italo Calvino

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what…

— Terry Eagleton

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“If you think about it, reading is a necessarily individual act, far more than writing. If we assume that writing manages to go beyond…

— Italo Calvino

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest…

— Marie Corelli

“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.”

— Harold Bloom

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in…

— Umberto Eco

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a rebellion: we…

— Hélène Cixous

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

— David McCullough