Victor Hugo Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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

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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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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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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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