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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
- Bennett, Arnold
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
Kump, Peter

2.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia

3.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Kirk, E.N.

4.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet

5.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fuller, Margaret

6.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.

7.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

8.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Miller, Henry

9.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Neruda, Pablo

10.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

11.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Gissing, George Robert

12.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

13.
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
Carlyle, Thomas

14.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

15.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Keith, Sir Arthur

16.
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Twain, Mark

17.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Disney, Walt

18.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb, American

19.
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

20.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Brooke, Rupert

21.
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
Rushdie, Salman

22.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven

23.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Goldsmith, Oliver

24.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto

25.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

26.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Crane, Frank

27.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

28.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.
Colton, Charles Caleb

29.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham

31.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida

32.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

33.
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Bennett, Arnold

34.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin

35.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

36.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Rostand, Jean

37.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

38.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

39.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

40.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

41.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Marx, Groucho

42.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Channing, William Ellery

43.
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
Miller, Henry

44.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

45.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

47.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

48.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

49.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

50.
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret


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