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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
Books Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books

1.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne

2.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith

4.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare

5.
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

6.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps

7.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris

8.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert

9.
Live always in the best company when you read.
Sydney Smith

10.
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

11.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon

12.
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

13.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden

14.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero

15.
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

16.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton

17.
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang

18.
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

19.
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat

20.
Oh for a book and a shady nook...
John Wilson

21.
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

22.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

23.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

24.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

25.
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

26.
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esar

27.
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

28.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks

29.
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
Ralph Novak

30.
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

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

32.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon

33.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

34.
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

35.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Upton Sinclair

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele

39.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas

40.
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey

41.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa

42.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps

48.
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

49.
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn

50.
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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