"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Reading,

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Joy, Books, Imagination

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

James Madison, American President

Reading, Leisure

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Leisure, Knowledge

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

Reading, Experience, Knowledge, Passion

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Reading, Books, Dream, Happiness, Imagination

"Read a short story every day."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reading, Story, Daily, Habit, Knowledge

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"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."

Work

"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."

Poetry

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."

Beauty

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

Talk

"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."

Writing

"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."

Experience

"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."

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

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

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

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow."

"Read a short story every day."

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"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."

"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."

"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."

"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."

"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."

"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."

"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."