“ Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. ”
- William Zinsser- Copy
- 756
“ When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? ”
- William Hart Coleridge- Copy
- 733
“ Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! ”
- Andrew Brown- Copy
- 933
“ Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ”
- Mortimer J. Adler- Copy
- 775
“ In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ”
- Mortimer Adler- Copy
- 592
“ Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 3.9K
“ One man is as good as another until he has written a book. ”
- Benjamin Jowett- Copy
- 621
“ I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
- 306
“ You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. ”
- Spike Lee- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.6K
“ England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 770
“ A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ”
- Carl Van Doren- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
- 2.4K
“ It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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