“I read like the flame reads the wood.”

—  Alfred Döblin

Last update Sept. 7, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I read like the flame reads the wood." by Alfred Döblin?
Alfred Döblin photo
Alfred Döblin1
German expressionist novelist 1878–1957

Related quotes

Smith Wigglesworth photo

“Some people like to read their bibles in the Hebrew; some like to read it in the Greek; I like to read it in the Holy Spirit”

Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) British evangelist

Page 79 <br class="br"> The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e2RWZpOHfmoC|Wigglesworth:

Virginia Woolf photo

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

Gracie Allen photo

“I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.”

Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne

As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 51

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”

Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher

Theodore Kaczynski photo

“But what first motivated me wasn’t anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.”

Theodore Kaczynski (1942) American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist

Interview with Earth First! in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, (June 1999)
Interviews

Ludwig Wittgenstein photo

“I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

As I myself read.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e

Charles Bukowski photo

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Warren Buffett photo

“I just read and read and read. … I have always enjoyed reading.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Rules for success

Related topics