On Reading: Quotations

I collect memorable quotations on everything from sex to humor to writing. These are all on the joy of reading.��

What better way to grow up and mature through life than accompanied by great novels to show us the way?–Lucy Horner.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ~ Kathleen Norris

Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint.���Mark Twain

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. ~ Thomas Carlyle

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. ~ Norman Cousins

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.~ Aneurin Bevan��

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.���~ Albert Camus��

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring���Warren Chappell

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.~ Frank Dane��

Never judge a book by its movie.~ J. W. Eagan ~

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?~ Fred Stoller ~

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.~ Atwood H. Townsend ~

���Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer���s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book.�� –Proust

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