Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

— Stephen King

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.”

— Meredith Wood

“A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. if you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in first.…

— Ann M. Noser

“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at a given…

— Phillip Lewis

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna