Mason Cooley Reading Quotations

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

Reading civilized the inner life.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.