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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
- Bradbury, Malcolm
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.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

3.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Chambers, Oswald

4.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Eliot, George

5.
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
Cuyler, Theodore L.

6.
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
Eagleton, Terry

7.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

8.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

9.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Adler, Mortimer J.

10.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane

11.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

12.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Morely, John

13.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Benjamin, Walter

14.
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Lee, Spike

21.
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.

22.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Murray, William

24.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset

25.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

26.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

27.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Phillips, Wendell

29.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

30.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Pound, Ezra

31.
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.

32.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet

33.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
Kump, Peter

34.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

35.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert

36.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Berger, John

37.
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

38.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

39.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony

40.
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.

41.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

42.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Channing, William Ellery

43.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Wolfe, Thomas

44.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

45.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

46.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Gissing, George Robert

47.
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Wells, Carolyn

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

49.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.

50.
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.


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