Books Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational Love Memories Remembered Writing Written
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice. — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that… — James A. Secord Copy Share Image
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I seem to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the… — Horace Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
