Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Books - reading

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson

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

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Asimov, Isaac

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.

Hadas, Moses

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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joubert, Joseph

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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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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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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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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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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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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

Coolio

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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A book worth reading is worth buying.