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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Secondat, Charles de
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Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
'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

2.
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

3.
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

4.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Miller, Henry

5.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

6.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Edwards, Tryon

7.
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

8.
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

9.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Aubrey, John

10.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
McKenna, Richard

11.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Hardwick, Elizabeth

12.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Pound, Ezra

13.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

14.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.

15.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane

19.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Lawrence, D. H.

20.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas

21.
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

22.
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.
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

24.
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James

25.
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

26.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

27.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

28.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

29.
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

30.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

31.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

32.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

33.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.

34.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Balfour, Arthur James

35.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

36.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

37.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

38.
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
Faulkner, William

39.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

40.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

41.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

42.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

44.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Goldsmith, Oliver

45.
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Swartz, J.

47.
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

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

49.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire

50.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Seferis, Giorgos


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