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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps
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Best Quotes about Books

1.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

2.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa

3.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton

4.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Upton Sinclair

5.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

6.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies

7.
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn

8.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps

9.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare

10.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with'em, then we grow out of'em and leave'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Dorothy L. Sayers

11.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen

12.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas

13.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

14.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

15.
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang

16.
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
Randy Pausch

17.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert

18.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne

19.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom

20.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

21.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden

22.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne

23.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies

24.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. Eisenhower

26.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

27.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

28.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot

29.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele

30.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound

31.
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esar

32.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton

33.
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
Anna Quindlen

34.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

35.
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
Ralph Novak

36.
I have read your book and much like it.
Moses Hadas

37.
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

38.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley

39.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon

40.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon

41.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith

42.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire

43.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks

44.
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.
Josh Lieb

45.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero

46.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann

47.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps

48.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses Hadas

49.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton

50.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham


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