Reading Quotes - Page 18

• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Book, Writing

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• Don't believe everything you read.

  Molly Sims

  Trust, Confidence, Believe

  "Molly Sims Defends Josh Duhamel" by Brian Orloff, people.com. November 11, 2009.

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Health, Fighting

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Being Alone, Writing

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• Believe everything you read

  Kurt Cobain

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Friendship, God

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes”, p.82, Discovery House

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, School, Mean

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• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  R. L. Stine

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Book, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 11, 2017

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

  Happiness, Truth, Attitude

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Passion, Illumination

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• The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

  Lester Roloff

  Bible, Christian, Teacher

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• I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Novelists, Needs

  "Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

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• The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

  Zuzana Licko

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

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• For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Understanding

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Learning, Design

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• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

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• Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pride, Littles, Hasty

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• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Writing, Creativity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Library

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Giving, Judging

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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