Lorrie Moore Quotes

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Reading is more important than writing.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.