Books Quote by Edmund Wilson Download Open image ““No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson”” — Edmund Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“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
“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet” — Charlie Jones Copy Share Image
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not… — Jack Lasenby Copy Share Image
“Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.” — Matthew Lipman Copy Share Image
“We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book". ~R. Alan Woods [2007]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
