Book Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image “In reading, one should notice and fondle details.” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book reading Details Reading Should
“The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in other writings. I remembered, for example, that for quite some time I tracked down the subject of kissing. I read and read and felt dizzy… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. — William Safire Copy Share Image
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image