Manuel Puig Quotes

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Have read little and understood less.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Reading is more important than writing.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations to petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An author cannot obtrude his service unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.

A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.