Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
“So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.”
A Mute Christian Under the Rod
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Interview in Writers at Work, First Series (1958), edited by George Plimpton
Variant: A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Source: Conversations with William Styron
“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
On reading books that might be deemed inappropriate in “We Read To Challenge Ourselves: An Interview With Mariko Tamaki” https://comicsalliance.com/mariko-tamaki-pride-week-interview/ in Comics Alliance (2016 Jun 24)
“We should read much, we should not read many books.”
Multum legendum esse, non multa.
Letter 9, 15.
Letters, Book VII