Motivational Quotes

Books

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

- Kathleen Norris

Best Quotes about Books

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

Frank Zappa

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

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

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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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

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

Evan Esar

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

Harold Bloom

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

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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

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

Upton Sinclair

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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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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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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

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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

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

Mark Twain

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

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

Robertson Davies

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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

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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

31.

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

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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

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Bell Hooks

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Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

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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

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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Cicero

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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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

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

John Witherspoon

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