Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lee, Spike

Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hood, Thomas

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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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

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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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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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

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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

Pound, Ezra

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Traherne, Thomas

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chappell, Warren

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Luther, Martin

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

Twain, Mark

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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

Morely, John

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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.

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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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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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