Motivational Quotes

Books

I have read your book and much like it.

- Moses Hadas

Best Quotes about Books

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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

Christopher Morley

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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

Marie de Sevigne

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

Lenore Hershey

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

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

Bell Hooks

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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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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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

Frank Zappa

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

Sir Richard Steele

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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

William Goldman

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

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

Mark Twain

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

John Witherspoon

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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

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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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

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

Charles De Secondat

32.

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

Evan Esar

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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

34.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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

Cicero

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

Ralph Novak

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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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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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

Harold Bloom

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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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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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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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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

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps