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I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of… — Maimonides
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the… — Mohammed Dib
Good readers make much out of little. — Irving Howe
It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and… — Bertrand Russell
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that… — LeVar Burton
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if… — Ethan Coen
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application… — Charles Caleb Colton
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. — Amos Bronson Alcott
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly… — Abraham Lincoln
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then… — Andre Maurois
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. — Toni Morrison
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them;… — William Styron
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… — David McCullough
When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to… — Jennifer Aniston
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. — Phyllis Schlafly
I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well. — Kurt Cobain

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