“Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
“Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) British actor-manager
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 40.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Remarks in Arlington, Virginia http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/092587b.htm (25 September 1987) <br class="br">1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American editor
Source: "Any Number Can Play," 1957
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"Wherefore Wildlife Ecology?" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 337.
1940s