Best Quotes about Books - reading
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
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Miller, Henry
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward
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
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
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
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William
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
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.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Fuentes, Carlos
You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Lejeune, Caroline
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Sterne, Laurence
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Bennett, Arnold
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard
A book worth reading is worth buying.
Ruskin, John
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
Ruskin, John
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.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson
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
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas
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