reading Quotes

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

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

topic:writing reading boredom

“It was a joy. Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race

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“Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:reading learning

“Her reputation of reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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