Motivational Quotes
Books - reading
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.

Best Quotes about Books - reading
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb, American
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
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
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
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
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
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord
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
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
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Jefferson, Thomas
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
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
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
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.
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
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''
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Brodsky, Joseph
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Brown, Les
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
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
Steele, Sir Richard
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.
Hemingway, Ernest
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Murray, William
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
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John
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
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy
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
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John
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
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Bevan, Aneurin
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Bennett, Arnold
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel
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