“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Ten Things I Love About You
“Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save the pangs of hunger.”
"The Place of English Literature in the Modern University" (1913)
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English biographer and critic 1859–1926Related quotes
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