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Books - reading
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
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
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook
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
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Jefferson, Thomas
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.
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.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
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
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Bloom, Allan
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.
Colton, Charles Caleb
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Kirk, E.N.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Traherne, Thomas
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Miller, Henry
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
Thurber, James
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Disney, Walt
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
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Brown, Les
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles
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
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Bevan, Aneurin
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas
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
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David
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.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
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
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret
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