Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

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I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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