Quotes On Reading

Alan Bennett

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by so…

Maya Angelou

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” 

Jamaica Kincaid

“I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn’t hel…

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In the New Yorker on the 12th September 1970