Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
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