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It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

» Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer

Read in order to live.

» Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution -such call I good books.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

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 tr

» Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing

» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there, that of the pulse, the hear

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

The mere brute pleasure of reading -the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intentio

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

» Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

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