Julian Barnes Quotes

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Read in order to live.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Man is what he reads.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

You can't write if you don't read.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Reading is a huge part of life.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Books always help.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

I've loved reading all my life.