Francis Bacon Quotes, Reading Quotes, Writing Quotes

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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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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When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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One must be an inventor to read well.

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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

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

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Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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