Karl Kraus Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Reading, Book

• I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

  Karl Kraus

  Book, Reading, Butterfly

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Acting

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Kind, Wells

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Request

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Reading, Pride

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, May

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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