Books Quotes

• "A book worth reading is worth buying."
  By: Ruskin, John
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• "The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared."
  By: Rushdie, Salman
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• "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
  By: Rushdie, Salman
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• "In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed."
  By: Rosten, Leo
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• "The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
  By: Rostand, Jean
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• "Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable."
  By: Rostand, Jean
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• "Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery."
  By: Rosenbach, A. S. W.
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• "Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this."
  By: Rose Macaulay
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• "The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
  By: Roosevelt, Eleanor
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• "Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."
  By: Rohn, Jim
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• "Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book."
  By: Rohn, Jim
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• "The book you don't read won't help."
  By: Rohn, Jim
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• "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
  By: Rochman, Hazel
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• "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
  By: Robert Burton
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• "The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
  By: Robert Benchley
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