Joseph Epstein Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Mean, Thoughtful

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

• While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Numbers, People

• The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Sacred, Serious

  Joseph Epstein (1999). “Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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