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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Writing
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779
- Freedom
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Writing
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Books
- Education
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer’s ideas or personality.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Preface
- Quotations
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.
Germaine Greerborn 1939Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989), “Still in Melbourne, January 1987”, p. 70
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
Germaine Greerborn 1939Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989), “Still in Melbourne, January 1987”, p. 70
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learning in that way, and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Second: Maiden No More, Chapter XIIIn context
- Men
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt1778–1830“On Reading New Books” (1825)
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
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
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, “The medicines of the soul.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. 28