“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.”
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 136.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
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“I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
The Universal Message (1958)
Context: I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.
Throughout eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man’s inability to live God’s words makes the Avatar’s teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion He taught, man has waged crusades in His name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.
Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form I observe Silence. You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them.
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”
Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Maurice Cowling (1926–2005) historian
Interviewed in Naim Attallah, Singular Encounters (Quartet Books, 1990), p. 142.
Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975) writer, journalist, and educator
The Damned Mob of Scribbling Women http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/the-damned-mob-of-scribbling-women/239882/ (Jun 3, 2011) The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com <br class="br">Context: I'm looking to avoid a subtly demeaning subtext which holds that reading, say, is something you should do--like flossing or taxes or laundry. I don't want to speak for women writers, but I recoil at the idea of someone reading my book because they really should read a black author or two. I don't want to be an icebreaker at your corporation's Kwanzaa gathering.
