I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so autho...
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious t...
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possi...
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...
