Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Books - reading

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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.

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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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Baker, Nicholson

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

Hope, Anthony

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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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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

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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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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Coolio

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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

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko, Yoshida

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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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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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

Gibbon, Edward