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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

"Read a short story every day."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reading, Story, Daily, Habit, Knowledge

"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

Reading, Read

Explore more quotes by Edmund Wilson

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Marxism, Opium

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."

Life, Style

"No two persons ever read the same book."

Reading, Read

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart."

Food, Peace, Heart, Safety

"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."

Genius, Will

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

Hollywood,

"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."

Imagination, Society, Possibility

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

Income, Nothing

"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."

Imagination, Vision