Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Greater Joy Reading
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing is enormously satisfying, a little difficult at times, but rewarding, especially when someone really loves the book - that is the ultimate joy.” — A.H. Richardson Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ” — Katarina Anhava Copy Share Image
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
