Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.105, Basic Books

• What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Expression, Stuff

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

• Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Grandmother, Boys

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Home

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

• The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Thinking, Born

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.309, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Intellectual, Democracy

• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Writing

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd

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