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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What is the moral? Who rides may read.

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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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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

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

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

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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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I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact opposite - it's very constricted, all having to conform to a form. My sense of fiction writing is not to think about rules but to be driven by the characters and their stories. I often ask myself what's at risk here, who needs what, and how are they going to get it. There has to be a reason for the reader to stop living their own life and start reading your book.

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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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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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