"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Reading, Courage, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author

Reading, Joy, Novel, Emotion

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Reading, Questions, Variety, Writing

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Reading, Read

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Old, Patience

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Reading, Books, Treasure, Enjoyment, Knowledge

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Reading, Read

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

Home

"Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!"

Literature

"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."

Heart

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

Church

"You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use- silence, exile, and cunning."

Philosophy

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Explore more quotes by James Joyce

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

"Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!"

"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

"Nations have their ego, just like individuals."

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."