Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

- Davies, Paul

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

Calano, Jimmy

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

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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 books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Locke, John

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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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 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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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