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Books - reading
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Best Quotes about Books - reading
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire
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
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
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
Eagleton, Terry
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Barrett, E.S.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Channing, William Ellery
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
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine
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
One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Lawrence, D. H.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert
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
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.
Benjamin, Walter
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn
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
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Bradbury, Malcolm
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Disney, Walt
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Crane, Frank
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert
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
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
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
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Davies, Robertson
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham
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