Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

'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

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

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Johnson

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

Milton, John

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

Marcel, Anthony

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lee, Harper

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

Dane, Frank

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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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

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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

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

Whitman, Walt

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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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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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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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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barstow, Stan

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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

Twain, Mark

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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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.

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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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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''

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

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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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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Penn, William

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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