Skip to quotes
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. — William Dean Howells
- If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. — William Dean Howells
- The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. — William Dean Howells