Fanny Kemble Quotes

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

I'm always reading something.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

If it wasn't for her literally doing my homework for me, I would not have even graduated high school. Guaranteed . . . My mom always said, 'Luck is nothing but preparation and opportunity.' I think because I've had that history of not really being great in school, I probably try to overcompensate. That's why I try to read so many books. Just so I don't feel . . . uneducated.