Book Quote by Edmund Wilson Download Open image ““No two person, ever read the same book.”” — Edmund Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Reality Realization Truth
“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.” — Joan G. Robinson Copy Share Image
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“You are never the same person stepping out of a book, that you were when you first stepped in.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.” — Matthew Lipman Copy Share Image
“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet” — Charlie Jones Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth;… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
