Reading Quotes - Page 14

• I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

  Eve Bunting

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

  Jeanne Herry

  Education, Book, Writing

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• I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Book, Library

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Powerful, Writing, Inspire

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• In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Book, People

  1941 Language in Action.

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• One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Wish, Attention

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.385

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

  Anatole France

  Book, Library, Return

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• Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

  Dawn Addams

  Funny, Book, Memorable

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• We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  May, Saws, Objects

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

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• After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Two

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Book, Swimming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Reading is important.

  John Garfield

  Important

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• But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

  William Cowper

  Running, Shining, May

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.277

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• In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Age, Instruction, Pulpit

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.219

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• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

  Roald Dahl

  Motivational, Wall, Book

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Book, Thinking, Carpe Diem

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  W. H. Auden

  Real, Book, Reader

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• A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Profound, Way

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• Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

  Daniel Handler

  Educational, Book, Never Trust

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ice, Fantasy, Shadow Of The Wind

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Unhappy Childhood, Age

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

  Clarence Day

  Book, Men, Creation Of Man

  Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”

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• Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Book, Sleep

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Book

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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