Charles Dickens Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

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

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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

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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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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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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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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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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Father Quotes , Reading Quotes

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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I have to say that my kids, like every child in America, is completely absorbed with Harry Potter. And so, I have gotten sucked into it, too; I can't wait for the next one to come out. I am trying to figure out what happens with Harry and Voldemort. So we have been reading that.

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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