Lord Byron Quotes, War Quotes, Reading Quotes

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every word. There's no closer reading then when you read to translate.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Reading Quotes , Exercise Quotes

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

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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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Library Quotes

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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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Reading Quotes , Garden Quotes

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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