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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read....It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. S. I. Hayakawa
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. -- William Wadsworth
I am a part of all I have read. John Kieran
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Tuper
Go three days without reading and your speech will become tasteless. Chinese proverb
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally, and often far more, worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C. S. Lewis
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Ruth Rendell
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. -- Frank Capra (1897-1991), American film director
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles Eliot
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer Adler
There is something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own - learned, kind, knowledgeable and human. Nathan Pine
I write because I don't know
what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor 1925 - 1964
A room without books is like a body without soul. Cicero
The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
Books are the carriers of civilization. Barbara Tuchman,
Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts. Nietzsche
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me. Anatole France
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Anne Frank
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris.
It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Oscar Wilde
A book is like a garden carried in a pocket. -- Chinese proverb
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain
I did not begin to write novels until I had forgotten all I had learned at school and college. John Galsworthy
The end of reading is not more books, but more life. Holbrook Jackson.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean Jacques Rousseau
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to cerebrate! William James
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.. Emily Dickinson
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. Isak Dinesen
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. George Bellows
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. And the true creator may be recognized by his ability to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. Igor Stravinsky
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself--life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.Willa Cather
Certain books have exerted a profound influence on history, culture, civilization and scientific thought throughout recorded time.... In every historical era, we find overwhelming evidence of the power of the written word without which a high state of civilization and culture is inconceivable in any time or place. Robert Downs
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one should not read. More than half of modern culture depends on what one should not read. Oscar Wilde
If you haven't been capturing your ideas on paper, you're missing an opportunity to take them to the next level. John Maxwell Thinking for a Change
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.Unknown
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Books are humanity in print. Barbara Tuchman
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. E. M. Forster
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . .this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. To take what there is and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived -- to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that -- this doubtless is the right way to live. Henry James
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
A book is the only place in which you can examine
a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea
without fear it will go off in your face… one of the few havens remaining
where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
--
Charles Langbridge Morgan
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. Vita Sackville-West
Nothing will take the place of a shelf full of books by one's own chair. -- A. Edward Newton
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
People who censor books are usually illiterate. John D. MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, 1964
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was
thought twice.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62),
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe
The worse thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones. Joseph Joubert
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Francis Bacon
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536).
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. Geoffrey Cottrell
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. Katherine Mansfield
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. Mark Twain
Tis the good reader that makes a good book. Emerson
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. F. Bacon
We read to know we're not alone -- C. S. Lewis
Truth is
stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
He buys me books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. I would like to learn. ---Emily Dickinson.
When you sell a man a book, you don't
sell him 12 ounces of
paper and glue, you sell him a whole new life. --Christopher Morley
The
things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get
me a book I ain't read. --
Abraham Lincoln
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
quotations. -- Sir Winston
Churchill
With a keyboard at my fingertips, I transform the blank monitor into a page of my heart. Louise Walkup
Research is formalized curiosity; it is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Hurston
With pen in hand
And paper blank
I move my thoughts
To fill the page
And to my
heart
Be true. Kathleen Lynn Murphy
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Sir Francis Bacon)
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. (Jules Renard)
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler
Writing only leads to more writing. (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
Writing, I think, is not apart from living.
Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences
everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits
always before or behind.. Catherine Drinker Bowen