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There is a set
of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that
virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery
in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine,
and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is
not true.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
We are as
liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
Read in order
to live.
-- Gustave Flaubert
1821-1880, French Novelist
I suggest that
the only books that influence us are those for which we are
ready, and which have gone a little further down our
particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist,
Essayist
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When you
reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you
did before; you see more in you than there was before.
-- Cliff Fadiman
American Writer
The tools I
need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little
whiskey.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
Read, read,
read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and
see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an
apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not,
throw it out the window.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
If the riches
of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe,
were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I
would spurn them all.
-- Francois FéNelon
1651-1715, French Writer
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