Mark Twain 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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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

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

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The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."

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

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What is the moral? Who rides may read.

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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

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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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Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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