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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
- Edwards, Tryon
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

2.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

3.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

7.
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark

8.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane

10.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

11.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John

12.
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

13.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

14.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook

15.
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

16.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar

17.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank

20.
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

21.
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

22.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

23.
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

24.
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George

25.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Gissing, George Robert

26.
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.

27.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

28.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

29.
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

30.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony

31.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Kirk, E.N.

32.
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.
Channing, William Ellery

33.
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

34.
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

35.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
Ruskin, John

36.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

37.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

38.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
Buckingham, Duke of

39.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

40.
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

41.
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

42.
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James

43.
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

44.
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.

45.
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

46.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas

47.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Edwards, Tryon

48.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

49.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

50.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord


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