Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

Properly, we should read for power.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this to be the common lot of people who are not merely playing follow-my-leader in research.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

What has not wasting time impaired?

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?