"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."

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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."

Tamora Pierce, American Author

Reading, Observation, Truth, Wisdom, Learning

"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

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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

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"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."

Shannon Hale, American Author

Reading, Books, Wonder, Knowledge

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"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."

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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

"Read in order to live."

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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

"I would rather start a family than finish one."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."