Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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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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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, 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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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Byron, Lord

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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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

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

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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

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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

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

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

Marcel, Anthony