Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Forster, Edward M.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Secondat, Charles de

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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

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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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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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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.

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

Proverb, American

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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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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Morely, 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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Hope, Anthony

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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Sinyavsky, Andre

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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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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert