Books Quote by Harold Bloom

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

— Edmund Burke

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

— Confucius

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

— Edmund Burke

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind…

— Robertson Davies

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

— Richard Hamming

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

— Joan Didion

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

— Conor Oberst

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

— Paul de Man

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and…

— Helen Keller