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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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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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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

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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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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

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I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

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I'm good at reading people.

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

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I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

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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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