Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Reading
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Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Villari took no notice of them because the idea of a coincidence between art and reality was alien to him. Unlike people who read novels, he never saw himself as a character in a work of art.
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
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Que otros se jacten de las paginas que han escrito; a mi me enorgullecen las que he leido.