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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,

"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Reading, Books, Friendship, Safety

"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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"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

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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

Genius

"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."

Art

"The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature."

Art

"You don't make art out of good intentions."

Art

"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."

Remorse

"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"

Independence

"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything."

Humanity

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Music

"But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart."

Loneliness

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

Art