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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; CCXLVIII
- Writing
More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act IIn context
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies1913–1995
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue⁠—you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley1890–1957Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Writing
The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.
MVMichael Votto
- Movies
This Treasury paper, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill1874–1965As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 50, ISBN 1586486389
- Clever Jabs
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Age
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Palm Sunday (1981), The People One Knows
- Anger
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Ideas
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Children
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Writing
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes sacræ (1597), Of Studies
- Talking
- Writing
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915