reading Quotes - Best Sayings about reading

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

Werner Herzog

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

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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 Davies

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

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A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

David Sedaris

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

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Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Stephen King

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