Reading Art Quotes

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.