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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
- Hadas, Moses
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

2.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

3.
Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.
Calano, Jimmy

4.
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Lejeune, Caroline

5.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

6.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

7.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
Choate, Rufus

8.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.

9.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy

10.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

11.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Bloom, Allan

12.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

13.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.
Hemingway, Ernest

14.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

15.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

16.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah

17.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Rohn, Jim

18.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
Steele, Sir Richard

19.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

20.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

21.
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

22.
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

23.
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
Cooley, Charles Horton

24.
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

25.
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

26.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas

27.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn

28.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Chambers, Oswald

29.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

30.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

31.
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Twain, Mark

32.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

33.
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

34.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Pound, Ezra

36.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

37.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere

40.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

41.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joubert, Joseph

42.
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

43.
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson

44.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord

45.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

46.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

47.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

48.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven

49.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

50.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Nietzsche, Friedrich


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