Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The age of the book is almost gone.

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Books - reading

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

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

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Whitman, Walt

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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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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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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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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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

Morely, John

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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

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Marcel, Anthony

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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 always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas