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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
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

2.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

3.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony

4.
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

5.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean

6.
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Horowitz, Lois

7.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Rosenbach, A. S. W.

8.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

9.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony

10.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert

11.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

12.
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

13.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Fielding, Henry

14.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin

15.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

16.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fuller, Margaret

18.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

20.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

21.
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

24.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Traherne, Thomas

25.
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.
Benjamin, Walter

26.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon

28.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

29.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas

30.
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.
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.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond

34.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Lee, Harper

35.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Hazlitt, William

36.
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

37.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Wilde, Oscar

38.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

39.
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

40.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

41.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

42.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Murray, William

43.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

44.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere

46.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Mccosh

47.
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.

48.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

49.
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Johnson, Samuel

50.
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


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