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Books - reading
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Goldsmith, Oliver
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony
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
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.
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
Ruskin, John
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.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.
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
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
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
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
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
Cuyler, Theodore L.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Davies, Robertson
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
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Eliot, George
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
Miller, Henry
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George
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
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Kingsley, Charles
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
Carlyle, Thomas
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy
The book you don't read won't help.
Rohn, Jim
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
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
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
Barrie, Sir James M.
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
Faulkner, William
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
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook
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
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