Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

- Benson, Arthur Christopher

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Brookner, Anita

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

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

Forster, Edward M.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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

Lee, Spike

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Murray, William

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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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

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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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

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Dawkins, John

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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.

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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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.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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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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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Sinyavsky, Andre

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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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

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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

Rohn, Jim