Admirable Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Just as the universal family of gifted writers transcends national barriers, so is the gifted reader a universal figure, not subject to spatial or…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“a good reader makes a good book”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway