Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lee, Spike

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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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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

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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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

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

Secondat, Charles de

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Marcel, Anthony

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

Descartes, Rene

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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

Spielberg, Steven

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery

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