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What is reading, but silent conversation.
- Landor, Walter Savage
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John

2.
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.
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

4.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

5.
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.

6.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

7.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
Lamb, Charles

8.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

9.
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

10.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

11.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

12.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward

13.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset

14.
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard

15.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Thackeray, William M.

16.
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

17.
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

18.
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

20.
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

21.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Benson, Arthur Christopher

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John

25.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo

26.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

27.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

29.
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

30.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.
After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.
Lawrence, D. H.

32.
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
Johnson

33.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

34.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

35.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

36.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

37.
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark

38.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Mann, Horace

39.
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
Orwell, George

40.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

41.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
Day, Clarence

42.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell

43.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Carter, Angela

44.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce

45.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

46.
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
Styron, William

47.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony

48.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

49.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

50.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn


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