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Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A.E. Housman, The Name and Natur
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
James Thurber
Books are cold but sure friends.
Victor Hugo
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
Steve Maraboli
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
Benjamin Franklin
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
Sir James Goldsmith
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
Thomas Carlyle
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you when you traveled too, and in the mountains where we lived in Switzerland and Italy, until we found Schruns in the high valley in the Vorarlberg in Austria, there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found, the snow and the forests and the glaciers and their winter problems and your high shelter in the Hotel Taube in the village in the day time, and at night you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you.
Ernest Hemingway
and soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.
Neil Gaiman
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.http://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/folio/textes/gide_ang.rtf
Andre Gide, from a note of the J
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
At about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. They made a good impression on me, which Gandhi himself at that time did not.
George Orwell
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.
John Green
The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.
Christopher Hitchens
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C.S. Lewis
