Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

- Spielberg, Steven

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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

Milton, John

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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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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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

Lee, Spike

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

Coolio

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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Wells, Carolyn

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony