Young man Quote by Walker Percy

“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls…

— Lin Yutang

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their…

— Jane Austen

“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as…

— Charlotte Lamb

“There is so much to know and we can only guess. Guess around him. To know him from these stray actions I am told…

— Michael Ondaatje

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing that would…

— Mark Helprin

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone…

— Amor Towles

“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia,…

— Carl Sagan

“a book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet it refuses…

— Alec Hutson

“and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar…

— George Orwell