Quotes about books - reading

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading   

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Erasmus, Desiderius on books - reading
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"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

Fadiman, Clifton on books - reading   

"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."

Faulkner, William on books - reading   

"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William on books - reading
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"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all."

FeNelon, Francois on books - reading   

"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."

Fielding, Henry on books - reading   

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"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."

Fielding, Henry on books - reading   

"Read in order to live."

Flaubert, Gustave on books - reading   

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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

Forster, Edward M. on books - reading   

"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it."

Forster, Edward M. on books - reading   

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

Forster, Edward M. on books - reading   

"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."

France, Anatole on books - reading   

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading
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"Read much, but not many books."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading   

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Frost, Robert on books - reading
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"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them."

Fuentes, Carlos on books - reading   

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

Fuller, Margaret on books - reading
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"It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore."

Fuller, Margaret on books - reading   

"A book that is shut is but a block."

Fuller, Thomas on books - reading   

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

Fusselman, W. on books - reading   

"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."

Geneen, Harold S. on books - reading
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"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."

Gibbon, Edward on books - reading   

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

Gibbon, Edward on books - reading   

"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things."

Gissing, George Robert on books - reading   

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

Goldsmith, Oliver on books - reading   

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."

Goldsmith, Sir James on books - reading   

"I read part of it all the way through."

Goldwyn, Samuel on books - reading   

"Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word."

Gross, Jacquelyn on books - reading   

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on books - reading
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"I have read your book and much like it."

Hadas, Moses on books - reading   

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it."

Hadas, Moses on books - reading   

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

Hardwick, Elizabeth on books - reading   

"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."

Harington, John on books - reading
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"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

Hayakawa, S. I. on books - reading
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

Hazlitt, William on books - reading
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"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other."

Hemingway, Ernest on books - reading   

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."

Hemingway, Ernest on books - reading   

"Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on books - reading
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