H. G. Wells Quotes, Reading Quotes, Animal Quotes

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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

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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Literacy Quotes

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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