“Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.”
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John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) British actor-manager
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 40.
Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman
Managing, Chapter Nine (The Numbers), p. 151.
“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
In Praise of Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Milorad Pavić (1929–2009) Serbian writer
Source: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author
As quoted in "Vertex Interviews Philip K. Dick" by Arthur Byron Cover, in Vertex, Vol. 1, no. 6 (February 1974) http://2010philipkdickfans.philipkdickfans.com/frank/vertexin.htm <br class="br">Context: I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt. There was in van Vogt's writing a mysterious quality, and this was especially true in The World of Null A. All the parts of that book did not add up; all the ingredients did not make a coherency. Now some people are put off by that. They think that's sloppy and wrong, but the thing that fascinated me so much was that this resembled reality more than anybody else's writing inside or outside science fiction. … reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“[The office of the interpreter] is to read Scripture like any other book.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html