Azar Nafisi Quotes

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.