Able Quote by Georg Brandes

“After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.”

— David Mitchell

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the…

— John Brandon

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

— Thomas Hobbes

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

— C.S. Lewis

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been…

— Dorothy Parker

“The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita