Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

- Davies, Paul

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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.

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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

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

No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Asimov, Isaac

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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

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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

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

Hope, Anthony

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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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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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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.