Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Gibbon, Edward

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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

Mansfield, Katherine

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

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

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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

Luther, Martin

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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Neruda, Pablo

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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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

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

Brookner, Anita

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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 person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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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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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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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.

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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

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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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

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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

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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

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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

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Byron, Lord

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les