Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Jackson, Holbrook

Best Quotes about Books - reading

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Barstow, Stan

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

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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

Milton, John

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Camus, Albert

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hugo, Victor

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.

Cutler, Wade E.

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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

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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

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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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

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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.

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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

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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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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko, Yoshida

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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb