Books Quote by Edith Wharton

“We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us…

— Marcel Proust

“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see…

— Neil Gaiman

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards…

— Samuel Johnson

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

— John Milton

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski

“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we…

— Marcel Proust

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.”

— Georges Bataille

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture…

— Oscar Wilde