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Reading
«What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Reading,
Writing
| Keywords:
condition, literature, reads, transforms, wrote
«To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
| About:
Beauty,
Poetry,
Reading
| Keywords:
apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, beautifully, flash
«We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
| About:
Reading
«To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.»
«To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
ennui, exchange
«What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
after all, finished, professors, The Professor
«Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
author, Good Book, talking, talking to, The Author
«What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
Everything or Nothing