Barack Obama Quotes, Reading Quotes, Decision Quotes

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

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

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Reading Quotes , Play Quotes

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Effort Quotes

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Reading Quotes , Character Quotes

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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Tags : Alan Furst Quotes , Reading Quotes , Degrees Quotes

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Thinking Quotes

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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