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Books - reading
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de
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.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Gissing, George Robert
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
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.
Mccosh
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
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Lee, Harper
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole
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
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Keith, Sir Arthur
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John
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
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
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
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
Choate, Rufus
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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
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
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
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Luther, Martin
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
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
Clarendon
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
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
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
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
Cooley, Charles Horton
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Rosenbach, A. S. W.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Benjamin, Walter
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Bury, Richard De
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Aubrey, John
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
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