Anton Chekhov Quotes, Reading Quotes, Years 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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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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Words are the voice of the heart.

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