Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Whitman, Walt

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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Camus, Albert

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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, 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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Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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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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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

Milton, John

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, American

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

Lee, Spike

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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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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

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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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

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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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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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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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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 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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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Brown, Les

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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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.