Motivational Quotes

Books

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

Best Quotes about Books

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

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

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

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

Charles De Secondat

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

Mark Twain

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

Cicero

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

Upton Sinclair

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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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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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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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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

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

Frank Zappa

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

John Witherspoon

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

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

Evan Esar

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

Groucho Marx

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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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

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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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

Harold Bloom

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Christopher Morley

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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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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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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Randy Pausch

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

Ralph Novak

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

Bell Hooks

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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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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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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