The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
