Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he… — Ford Madox Ford
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… — Anton Chekhov
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,… — Ernest Hemingway
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. — Christopher Smart
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books. — Maxim Gorky
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as… — Mark Twain
Get stewed:Books are a load of crap. — Philip Larkin
The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand. — Ezra Pound
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you… — James Lee Burke
God protects those he loves from worthless reading. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on… — Mark Twain
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau
The book should act as a window to the word. — Unknown Author
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the… — Mark Twain
We never tire of the friendships we form with books. — Charles Dickens
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? — Annie Dillard
I don't take drugs, I take books. — Ingeborg Bachmann
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at… — Henry James
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the… — Ted Kooser
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work… — Flannery O'Connor
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Unknown Author
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I… — Emma Watson

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