Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

- Phelps, William Lyon

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Mccay, James T.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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

Marcel, Anthony

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

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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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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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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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 dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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

Hood, Thomas

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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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.

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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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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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

Twain, Mark

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

Frost, Robert

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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

Ruskin, John

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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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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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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.