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Books - reading
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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.
Peters, Thomas J.
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
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Guin, Ursula K. Le
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.
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
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
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
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius
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
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Terry, Helen
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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Channing, William Ellery
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
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. 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
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Barrett, E.S.
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
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt
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
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.
Hemingway, Ernest
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Twain, Mark
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren
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
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
Rhys, Jean
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall
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
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Kempis, Thomas
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Berger, John
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
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