"No two people read the same book." — Edmund Wilson

"No two people read the same book."

— Edmund Wilson

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29 Quotes by Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all…
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand,…
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the…
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built…
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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