Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

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I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

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I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

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