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Books - reading
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Best Quotes about Books - reading
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Brown, Les
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Miller, Henry
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise
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
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
Johnson
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh
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
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.
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.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Berger, John
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
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Lee, Spike
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.
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
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
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson
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
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Barrett, E.S.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Rochman, Hazel
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson
The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.
Cutler, Wade E.
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
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Fadiman, Clifton
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