Books Quote by William Lyon Phelps

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

— Anonymous

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have…

— Janis Ian

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind…

— Jaume Cabre

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as…

— Kevin Keck

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might…

— Hannah More