In a
real sense, people who have read good literature
have lived more than people who cannot or will not
read. It is not true that we have only one life to
live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives
and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
-- S. I. Hayakawa
1902-1992, Canadian
Born American Senator, Educator
If I
have not read a book before, it is, for all intents
and purposes, new to me whether it was printed
yesterday or three hundred years ago.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British
Essayist
All
good books are alike in that they are truer than if
they had really happened and after you are finished
reading one you will feel that all that happened to
you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good
and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow,
the people and the places and how the weather was.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American
Writer
The
good parts of a book may be only something a writer
is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck
of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the
other.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American
Writer
