"When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."

Reading, Books, Imagination, Connection

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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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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"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally " and often far more " worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"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

"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Spirit, Humor, Seriousness

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

Neil LaBute, American Director

Reading, Read

"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

"Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."

Mistake

"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."

Religion

"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."

Tradition

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

Art

"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Love

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."

Learning

"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."

Boundaries

"Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit."

Social

"111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best."

Saying

"For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it."

Economics