Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Carlyle, Thomas

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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

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

Marcel, Anthony

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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

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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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.

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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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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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

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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

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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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

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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