Tara Westover: Quotes about reading

Tara Westover is American historian and author. Explore interesting quotes on reading.
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“I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 17, “To Keep it Holy” (p. 157; the reference is to the Holocaust)

“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 62)

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. ””

Tara Westover book Educated

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble””

Tara Westover book Educated