Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 31
“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Abigail Adams (28 December 1794), Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
1790s
Source: Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist
As quoted in B. F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas (1968) by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73.
Context: We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Alice James (1848–1892) American diarist
As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).
Fredric Jameson (1934) American academic
Introduction
Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)