reading Quotes

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry”

― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“I seek, in the reading of books, only to please myself by an honest diversion; or, if I study, 'tis for no other science than what treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and how to live well.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:knowledge reading books

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:reading books thought

“What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

topic:self reading books

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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