Quotes: Reading (14).

Reading purpose 00 Gustave Flaubert: "Read in order to live." Manguel, A History of Reading.

Reading purpose 7 "We read to understand, or to begin to understand." Manguel, A History of Reading.

Reading purpose 71 "In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication." Manguel, A History of Reading.

Reading purpose 89 "One reads in order to ask questions," Kafka once told a friend. Manguel, A History of Reading.

Reading purpose 93 "Altogether, Kafka wrote in 1904 to his friend Oskar Pollak, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us; if the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?" Manguel, A History of Reading.