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Reader Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or…
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
- To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more…
- It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
- To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more…
- I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the…
More Reader Quotes
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond