Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

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.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

I like what I read, I find it intellectually engaging and I don't really have that much time, so I gotta make every bit count. I read magazines and stuff like that, but if I'm going to read a book, I want to come out smarter. It's not to escape, it's to learn.

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

Some people read books for fun.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.