Books Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of idleness.' But…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if I don’t…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Once you read a book it becomes a part of you forever”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that each is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin

“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to…

— C.S. Lewis

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you…

— Mortimer Adler