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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

Reading, Read

"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Reading, Trouble

"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

Reading, Act, Night, Security

"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

Reading, Experience, Being, Culture

"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

Reading, Manager, Coach, Television

"Hard writing makes easy reading."

Wallace Stegner, American Novelist

Reading, Writing

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Tea

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

Jean Paul, German Author

Reading, Read

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Joy, Books, Imagination

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Reading, Writing

Explore more quotes by Gilbert Murray

"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."

Reading, Literature

"Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul."

Soul, Body, Comfort, Enemy

"Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle."

Being, English, Style, Words

"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."

Language, Grammar, Unconscious

"The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."

Business, Poetry, Myths

"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history."

History, Truth, Literature

"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."

Fact, Meaning, Word

"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."

Happiness, Life, Liberty, Man

"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."

Imagination, Direction, Greece, Road