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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.
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell

2.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

3.
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Barrow

4.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

6.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

7.
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

8.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor

9.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas

10.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Channing, William Ellery

12.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony

13.
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

14.
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

15.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren

16.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord

17.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Barrett, E.S.

22.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

23.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

24.
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

25.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Morely, John

26.
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
Orwell, George

27.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Benson, Arthur Christopher

28.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Carter, Angela

29.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.

30.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.
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

32.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Lawrence, D. H.

33.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.

34.
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles

35.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Adler, Mortimer J.

36.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

37.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

38.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

39.
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

40.
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.

41.
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

42.
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''

43.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert

44.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

45.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

46.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

48.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

49.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

50.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Mann, Horace


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