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“Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.”

Ifs Believe Doe Book Feelings Reading Existence Thee Generous

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of.”

Men Wells Whole Character Dream Lasts Reading Habit Gentle Coercion Irresistible Tenors

Book:Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

Source: Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

“books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.”

Ifs Years Book Different Country Would Be Reading Brain Weight Book Reading Different Place

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.”

Want Book Reading Water Our Lives Drink Essentials Glasses Ashamed Book Reading Never Expect

Book:Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft

Source: Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft

“in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.”

“Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.”

Children Reading Education One Thing Teaching Teaching Children

Book:Marva Collins' Way

Source: Marva Collins' Way

“I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.”

Reading Enjoy Not Interested Blogs

Author:Brian Greene

“I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.”

Ifs Book Reading Book Reading

Book:The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

“the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.”

Writing Art Pain Reading Pleasure Remains Intense Pain And Pleasure Art Of Writing

Book:The profane art: essays and reviews

Source: The profane art: essays and reviews

“Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.”

Reading Walking Museums Gallery Bookstores Browsing

Author:Wendy Beckett

“McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”

People Book Reading Media Stupid Television Broken Becoming Shame Watching Television

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.”

War Reason Reading Felt Half Flow Obstacles Smooth Diaries Halt Half Truth Very Depressed

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.”

Way Children Two Book Moments Would Be Reading Existence Forever Childhood Distraction Layers Pointless Literal Inaccessible

Author:Marguerite Duras

“There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.”

World Two Able Reading Months Periods Six Aspect Independent Entity Six Months Convincing Transparent Detached Two Worlds Jellyfish

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.”

Reading Memories Lays Sentences Seats Length Quotations Herbs Pluck Musings Pruning

Author:Elizabeth I

“I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.”

Ends Stories Reading House

Author:Alice Munro

“I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.”

Art Book Reading Clear Art Of Loving

Book:Something I've been meaning to tell you: thirteen stories

Source: Something I've been meaning to tell you: thirteen stories

“The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.”

People Should Writing Running Reading Work Fiction Office Paper Pages Letters Bored Decent Cracks Application Masterpiece

Author:Jilly Cooper

“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”

Thinking Knows Would Be Able Desire Reading Born Music Century Research Blessed Library Pity Museums Unending

Author:Wanda Landowska

“Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.”

People Writing Book Philosophy Form Reading Walks Garden Standing Wave Landscape Gardening Writing A Book Standing There

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Reading Audience Written Periods

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.”

“For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?”

Years Looks Reading Brain Blow Magazines Beauty Magazines

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.”

Book Turns Reading Difficult Struggle Questioning Difficult Times Book Reading Questioning Why

Author:Halle Berry

“I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.”

Thinking Reading Next Novel

Book:Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

“My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.”

Feelings School Reading Education

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.”

Ifs May Children Sometimes Reading Knowing Deeds Saved Good Deeds Librarian Bakers Rest In Peace Augusta

Author:Audre Lorde

“Read much, but not many works.”

Reading

Author:Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

“I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.”

Remember Reading Realizing Records Tvs Late Teens Remember When Watching Tv

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.”

Facts America Song Culture Reading Vision Listening Surprising Bob Multiple Angle Shifting Thrilling Dylan American Culture Sean

Author:Martin Scorsese

“the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.”

Should Writing Seems Order Reading Bits Increase Species Compulsion Selected Life Span Wiring

Author:Lorrie Moore

“reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.”

Should Persons Book Reading Left Novel Reader Book Reading Left Alone

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.”

Ifs Men Should Long Book Reading Known Should Have Contemplation Long Life Should Have Known

Author:Isaac Asimov

“We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else.”

Want Persons Reading Voice Happened Pops Envy Chosen Beloved Why Not Savages Interiors

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.”

Ifs Knows World Country Would Be Reading Paper Newspapers Papers

Book:DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE

Source: DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE

“One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.”

Book Ends Reading Hours Sitting My Favorite Quotations

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.”

Source: It's only me: pieces from a column

“The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.”

Years Reading Grows White Emotion Battle Fame Army Bridges Towers Battlefields Tents Chivalry Wellington Brutus Saladin

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.”

Certain Fall Reading Company Novel Minutes Students Reader Ten Fever Bad Company

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.”

People Reading Reader Pages Prejudice Friendly Lamps Lighting Good Writers Adverse Spectacles Magnifying

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.”

Mind Book Choices Reading Bears Reader Genius Labor Settling Fancy Thoughtful Delicate Idle Leafs Sweetness Perfume Secrecy Fluttering Glands Thoughtful Mind

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.”

Book Reading Hours Imagination Fire Advice Students Reflection Forgotten Proportion Scholar

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.”

Thinking Today Reading President More Time

Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.”

“I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.”

Thinking Want Firsts Kind Book Might Kids Reading Games Fun Enjoy Moral Teach Tvs Messages Video

Author:Louis Sachar

“The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography”

Said Reading Social Worst Pornography Anti Social

Author:Gore Vidal

“Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.”

People Book Reading Fiction Reader Structure

Author:Bonnie Friedman

“We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.”

Want Book Reading Book Reading

Author:Carolyn Wheat

“Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!”

Men Reading Sick Illness Medical Accomplished Instruction Sick Man

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.”

World May Two Age Reading Vision Study Creation Fields Limits Normal Perception Two Things Creation Of The World Reading History

Author:Mahmud Tarzi

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