F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Reading Quotes

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

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

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

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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

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

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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

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I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

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

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

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

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