Source: Conversations with William Styron
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.”
Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.”
Source: Clearing the air
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
Source: Literature and Life
“I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.”
“Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.”
Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
Source: The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics
Source: Clearing the air
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
“What is reading but silent conversation?”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.”
“Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.”
Source: Twenty-five Village Sermons
“I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.”
“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.”
“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
Source: The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910
“I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
Source: Dave Barry Does Japan
“This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.”
Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
Source: Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover