"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."

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"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

"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

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reading, Shakespeare, Books, Frustration

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Reading, Writing

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Reading, Time, Values, Wisdom

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Reading, Body, Exercise, Mind

"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Reading, Books, Knowledge, Insight, Self

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Mind, Escape, Suffering

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

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"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."

Education

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Genius

"I want to live quietly."

Want

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

Happiness

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."

Friendship

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

Desire

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

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

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

"With a book he was regardless of time."

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"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."

"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."

"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."

"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

"I want to live quietly."

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."