Books Quote by Marshall McLuhan

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read…

— Francine Prose

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

— Laurence Sterne

Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; I found a way to make it an asset. I began to sound words and…

— Richard Ford

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more…

— Irvine Welsh

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes…

— Helen Vendler

“Fast reading of a great novel will get us the plot. It will get us names, a shadowy idea of characters, a sketch of…

— Susan Hill

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so…

— Stephen Sondheim

“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud