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Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Paul Theroux
Reading, World, Knows
Source: www.pbs.org

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Paul Theroux
Book, Reading, People
Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.

Paul Theroux
Art, Book, Reading

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

Paul Theroux
Travel, Book, Reading
Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Paul Theroux
Book, Reading, Pages
Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.131, Ivy Books

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

Paul Theroux
Reading, Journey, Discovery
Source: www.pbs.org

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Paul Theroux
Notebook, Reading, Loss
"Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Paul Theroux
Book, Reading, Writing
"Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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