A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man is what he reads.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.