Collapse Quote by Thomas Hardy

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose…

— Carson McCullers

“For a long time I was continually putting off the next step in my exploration because I felt I ought to know more, knew…

— Marion Milner

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”

— Toni Morrison

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.”

— Toni Morrison

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What he thought…

— Virginia Woolf

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents…

— Haruki Murakami