Quotes about reading
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
?UnattributedOften credited to Dorothy Parker
Cicero107–43 BCOften credited to G. K. Chesterton
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist Part I (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1905) The Critic As Artist Part II, in Intentions New York, Bretanos. Retrieved from Library of Congress Americana Archive.org 26 February 2018To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906).A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of ReadingReading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
