"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."

Reading, Act, Writing

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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

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"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Infinite, Talk, Want, Word

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Reading, Escape, Story, Reality

"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reading, Books, World, Paradise, Knowledge

"Read good books to improve your life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reading, Books, Life, Knowledge, Growth

"We encounter great souls by reading great books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reading, Books, Wisdom, Inspirational

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Joy, Books, Imagination

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Man, Sound, Wishes

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Reading, Thought, Books

"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Reading, Mind, Imagination, Knowledge

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"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

Home

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

Attention

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

Fact

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

Despair

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

Fiction

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

Friendship

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

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

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

"Read good books to improve your life."

"We encounter great souls by reading great books."

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

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

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

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"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."