Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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

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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

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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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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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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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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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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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