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- It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
- O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism…
- To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness…
- It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.
- I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
- We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read…
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general…
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him-…
- She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of…
- Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
- Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed…
- Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let…
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the…
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there…
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