Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Trollope, Anthony

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Bennett, Arnold

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lee, Spike

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

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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 more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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

Murray, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

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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

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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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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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

Calano, Jimmy

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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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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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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

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

Frost, Robert

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Whitman, Walt

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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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

Spielberg, Steven

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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Townsend, Atwood H.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo