Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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''

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Marcel, Anthony

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Rushdie, Salman

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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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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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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

Trollope, Anthony

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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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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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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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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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Barstow, Stan

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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset