Famous quotes containing the word reading:
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
“Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)