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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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Author:Margaret Fuller

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

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Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”

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Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”

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Author:Ann Bancroft

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Book:The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”