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As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross. Patrick White
Haruki Murakami quote: "Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a..."
Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968. Haruki Murakami
The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels. Anatole Broyard
Jane Austen quote: "It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny,..."
It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
If there are any to see I at least am revealed to them. I have written Gandalf is here in signs that all can read from Rivendell to the mouths of Anduin. J. R. R. Tolkien
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. And recks not his own read. William Shakespeare
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten. Larry Niven
One reason to keep going is that the country was given to us as a sacred charge. It is, as Stephen Vincent Benet says in 'the Devil and Daniel Webster,' not the only place that created free man- but... Read More its a place that demands that we decide what to do with out freedom. You can only punish yourself, That's the existential view. I don't think there's any reward beyond participating, beyond being here. And the antithesis of reward is punishment, and the only punishment that can come... Mort Sahl
Edward Abbey quote: "The best thing about graduating from the university was that I..."
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Edward Abbey
Jane Austen quote: "it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading..."
it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading... Jane Austen
Jacques Barzun quote: "no subject of study is more important than reading…all other..."
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. Jacques Barzun
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. Elizabeth Bishop
Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever. Mark Helprin
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir. Elizabeth Wurtzel
C. S. Lewis quote: "Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten..."
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years. C. S. Lewis

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