Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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.

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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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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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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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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

Hope, Anthony

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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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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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

Bach, Richard

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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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

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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.

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Whitman, Walt

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.