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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

2.
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

3.
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

4.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.

5.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

6.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
Kump, Peter

7.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

8.
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

9.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim

10.
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.

11.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb

12.
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

13.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Lee, Harper

14.
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Brown, Les

15.
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark

16.
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

17.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

23.
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Lejeune, Caroline

24.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas

25.
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

26.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

27.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce

28.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

29.
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.

30.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

31.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

32.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

33.
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

34.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

35.
A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
Steinbeck, John

36.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

37.
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

38.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Bruyere, Jean De La

39.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

40.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward

41.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim

42.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Bradbury, Malcolm

43.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

44.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

45.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

46.
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

47.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo

48.
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

49.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

50.
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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