Paul Theroux Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, People

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Book, Reading

• Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

  Paul Theroux

  Reading, Journey, Discovery

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

  Paul Theroux

  Reading, World, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

• I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

  Paul Theroux

  Notebook, Reading, Loss

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

• One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.131, Ivy Books

• In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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