Alan Bennett Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

• A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Imagination

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.15, Faber & Faber

• The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Long, Enough

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.10, Faber & Faber

• The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Book, Literature

• What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.10, Faber & Faber

• Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Briefing, Inviting

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.10, Faber & Faber

• [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Facts, Briefing

• To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

• ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Writing, Impossible

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

• Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

  Alan Bennett

  Kindness, Reading, Book

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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