„In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.“
Edmund Wilson
1895 - 1972Citações relacionadas
„Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.“
— Alberto Manguel writer 1948
A History of Reading (1996), Private Reading, p. 152.
„A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
„Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.“
— Holbrook Jackson British journalist 1874 - 1948
„Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
„What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.“
— Alice James American diarist 1848 - 1892
As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).
„A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.“
— William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830
"Common Places," No. 13, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)
„Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.“
— Sören Kierkegaard, Stages on Life's Way
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845), Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
„The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…“
— Mohsin Hamid, livro How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
„You're never alone when you're reading a book.“
— Susan Wiggs American writer 1958
